From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx3.redhat.com (mx3.redhat.com [172.16.48.32]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id jARC9TV09465 for ; Sun, 27 Nov 2005 07:09:29 -0500 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.198]) by mx3.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id jARC9I78000412 for ; Sun, 27 Nov 2005 07:09:24 -0500 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 69so1525429wra for ; Sun, 27 Nov 2005 04:09:18 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <80d985600511270409q6fadc509p151530b7e1083482@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 21:09:18 +0900 From: Craig Hagerman Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] One of 8 PVs dead - Trying to rescue data from remaining 7 In-Reply-To: <438881B0.4040000@cox.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline References: <4365F0AC.3090909@oxtel.com> <80d985600511252130j37b17586i9dd1649a958622ba@mail.gmail.com> <438881B0.4040000@cox.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 On 11/27/05, Old Fart wrote: > Craig Hagerman wrote: > > On 10/31/05, Tom Robinson wrote: > >> > I use raid 5 just for this problem. Have dropped 2 of the 3 raid > devices and system keeps on truckin'. You can hot add devices back in > and keep going while they sync. Good luck. > Yeah, this would work with 3 discs, but doesn't answer the general question about recovering data from a single LVM drive. In my 2 drive system it wouldn't work. Any other ideas? I would assume that if one drive failed it should be trivial to be able to access the information on the remaining drive. If not, then I would be a lot safer going back to a non-LVM system using the two drives as distinct partitions. Craig