From: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] pvmove safety
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:45:11 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C3E4CC38-3764-4EC3-910E-9FBD91667701@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1C8CF1EA1A5B5940B81B0710B2A4C93850BB382BA1@an-ex.ActiveNetwerx.int>
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pvmove is pretty reliable. However, I would probably make a backup
before doing any sort of operation that would grow/shrink/move a file
system.
brassow
On Feb 12, 2008, at 3:25 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
> How safe is pvmove in LVM2 when being operated on live volumes? I
> understand a backup is always a good policy as nothing can be 100%
> safe, but is the command known to produce unreliable results when
> used on a live filesystem? I am readinghttp://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/removeadisk.html
> and the warning up top is hard to miss, but I wonder if it’s a bit
> outdated?
>
> Thanks!
> jlc
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-12 21:25 [linux-lvm] pvmove safety Joseph L. Casale
2008-02-15 15:45 ` Jonathan Brassow [this message]
2008-02-15 19:21 ` Joseph L. Casale
2008-02-16 0:48 ` Alasdair G Kergon
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