From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [172.16.48.31]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.11.6) with ESMTP id k2ULxet4009206 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:59:40 -0500 Received: from mx12.bbn.com (mx12.bbn.com [128.33.0.81]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k2ULxb6h023896 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:59:39 -0500 Received: from mgillen2.dsl.bbn.com ([128.89.72.74]) by mx12.bbn.com with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FP5As-0007Tj-5N for linux-lvm@redhat.com; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:59:26 -0500 Message-ID: <442C54BD.8010305@mattgillen.net> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:59:25 -0500 From: Matthew Gillen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Accessing volume group on single drive of failed raid 1? References: <200603291138.08104.kmescher@vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <200603291138.08104.kmescher@vt.edu> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: LVM general discussion and development Kevin Mescher wrote: > Is there a way to access/start up a volume group from a > single drive of a failed raid 1? Sure. I've done it recently. > I had a drive fail on my raid 1 array, and I didn't want to > have to bring up a md device to be able to access the > volume group information. Why? The md device should be perfectly functional with 1 working drive. > Is there any way to access the > individual drives in the array without having to bring it > up? I don't think so, but that's more a RAID question than an LVM one. Matt