-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Sorry - not really 64-bit related, but I figured somebody on this list would know the answer to this one...
Does anybody know what happens if an LVM2 physical volume fails? Obviously any data on that physical volume is lost, and I'd imagine any logical volumes that reside in part or whole on that physical volume would be a mess. What happens to logical volumes in the same volume group which do not reside on the lost physical volume? Are they easily recovered? How about logical volumes in a different volume group - are those affected at all? I didn't see any documentation on this topic on the lvm2 HOWTO. I'm contemplating adding another drive and rsyncing stuff to it. Ideally I'd like to use lvm2 with the new drive, and just make sure the stuff that is important to backup doesn't end up on the same physical drive (easy enough to do). However, I don't want the backup drive to disappear in a puff of logic if one of the main drives fails. On the other hand, I like the flexibility LVM gives you in moving data around and resizing partitions and you lose that if you start making lots of volume groups - one day that backup drive might become my new primary drive. I'm trying to avoid RAID as I have a small collection of hard drives at this point and in order to set up RAID I'd need to toss just about all of them since they're of various sizes/speeds/etc. I already backup all my critical stuff offline anyway - but I have tons of mythtv video spread across multiple drives that I'd just as soon not lose in a failure. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF7ATQG4/rWKZmVWkRAob7AJ0baRQlCQ3a9ieKbAZ3ESZJSDs6hwCgyiVd qR70JbH/23+QW4Qp2B8Zjkg= =M1Rj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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