Re: LVM and disk failure

2006-01-09 Thread Erik Karlin
On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 11:02:25PM -0800, Mike Bird wrote: > On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 22:15, Daniel Webb wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 09:02:20PM -0800, Mike Bird wrote: > > Well, yes, but supposing you *do* have a failure? Then what? Half the > > filesystem is still there on the second disk, i

Re: LVM and disk failure

2006-01-07 Thread Mike Bird
On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 22:15, Daniel Webb wrote: > On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 09:02:20PM -0800, Mike Bird wrote: > Well, yes, but supposing you *do* have a failure? Then what? Half the > filesystem is still there on the second disk, is it recoverable, and if not, > why not? You may get some of the d

Re: LVM and disk failure

2006-01-07 Thread Daniel Webb
On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 09:02:20PM -0800, Mike Bird wrote: > If you've got enough spindles, each physical volume is typically a RAID1 > or RAID5. Then you can add and remove physical volumes from > your volume group as needed. A single disk failure is harmless. > > Other than adding and removin

Re: LVM and disk failure

2006-01-07 Thread Mike Bird
On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 20:20, Daniel Webb wrote: > What happens when you have a 2-disk LVM volume group and disk 1 fails? > Obviously this will depend on the filesystem you put on top of the volume, > right? So which filesystems will recover gracefully if you chop them in half > like that? > > It'

LVM and disk failure

2006-01-07 Thread Daniel Webb
I've been Googling for the answer to this and failing, so: What happens when you have a 2-disk LVM volume group and disk 1 fails? Obviously this will depend on the filesystem you put on top of the volume, right? So which filesystems will recover gracefully if you chop them in half like that? It'