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From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] --removemissing explanation
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:22:17 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080116032217.GQ8075@agk.fab.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1C8CF1EA1A5B5940B81B0710B2A4C938373C2BE1B6@an-ex.ActiveNetwerx.int>

On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 07:18:54PM -0700, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
> Referring back to a frantic post I made earlier, if a pv providing
> extents used in a vg with *some* of those extents used in an lv
> disappears, why doesn't the removemissing option restore the lv so at
> least I can salvage what may be left? 

--removemissing is to clean up *after* you've salvaged what you can.
Options like --partial exist to help with salvage.

Alasdair
-- 
agk@redhat.com

      reply	other threads:[~2008-01-16  3:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-16  2:18 [linux-lvm] --removemissing explanation Joseph L. Casale
2008-01-16  3:22 ` Alasdair G Kergon [this message]

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