On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 12:29:35PM +0200, Marc Lehmann wrote:
I think pvcreate should have some kind of force option that lets one write
or restore a pv header no matter what - the tool already has support
for restore operations, and this should not be thwarted in emergency
situations.
I'm
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 06:36:34PM +0100, Alasdair G Kergon a...@redhat.com
wrote:
I'm not keen on that as it can make bad situations even worse.
(Some people will still use the force option before they realising they
just wrote to the wrong disk.)
However, we do have a feature planned that
Package: lvm2
Version: 2.02.39-7
Severity: wishlist
Some script accidentally overwrote the start of some disk with zeroes,
which wiped the partition table and pv header, but not the actual data.
While I could restore the partition table with fdisk, I couldn't restore
the pv with pvcreate
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