> You got lucky. According to all info I found and my own attempts to > recover if a drive fails completely all LVM tools will give up because > the volume can't be accessed and therefore can't be operated on. If > you were able to get LVM to remove the drive that is dead you would > then have the problem of XFS not being able to shrink only grow. So > you cannot remove the dead drive. From what I read when I installed > LVM I thought this would work but when push came to shove I found out > that LVM can remove a "failing" disk but if your disk just completely > fails your complete array is toast.
Maybe things have changed since you did your reading? You can mount LVMs with a drive missing with the --partial option. If you have trouble with the filesystem you can run xfs_repair before calling the whole array toast. -Jon
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