Re: [linux-lvm] LVM and HSM?

2019-05-13 Thread Zdenek Kabelac
Dne 12. 05. 19 v 0:07 Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk napsal(a): Hi With lvmcache and all, is there anything in the works of making an HSM (Hierarchical storage management aka tiered storage) with LVM as with less-used data on slow, spinning rust and more-used data on higher tiers? Hi There is no

Re: [linux-lvm] recover volume group & locical volumes from PV?

2019-05-13 Thread Zdenek Kabelac
Dne 12. 05. 19 v 0:52 "Rainer Fügenstein" napsal(a): hi, I am (was) using Fedora 28 installed in several LVs on /dev/sda5 (= PV), where sda is a "big" SSD. by accident, I attached (via SATA hot swap bay) an old harddisk (/dev/sdc1), which was used about 2 months temporarily to move the volume

Re: [linux-lvm] LVM and HSM?

2019-05-13 Thread Gionatan Danti
Il 13-05-2019 10:26 Zdenek Kabelac ha scritto: Hi There is no technical problem to enable caching of cached volume (aka convert cache_cdata LV into another 'cached' volume. And as long as there are not errors anywhere - it works. Difficulty comes with solving error cases - and that's the main

Re: [linux-lvm] recover volume group & locical volumes from PV?

2019-05-13 Thread Rainer Fügenstein
hi, I don't understand how this could have happened by accident. lvm2 provides strong detection of duplicated devices. It also detects older metadata. that's what also puzzles me, since I've never had any issues in this regard before. So you would have to put in 'exact' but just old