Re: [linux-lvm] replacing a failling disk on a mirrred VG.

[Jonathan E Brassow <jbrassow redhat com>]

On Feb 6, 2007, at 11:41 AM, Steve Wray wrote:

> Jonathan E Brassow wrote:
> > This one should be pretty easy...
> > Effectively, you want to keep the primary mirror devices, so do:
> > lvconvert -m0 <vg/lv>
> > to down convert them to linear devices.
> > Then remove PV1 (vgreduce), add a new disk to your system, add it to 
> > your vg (vgextend), and finally, up-convert the linear devices to 
> > mirrors again:
> > lvconvert -m1 <vg/lv>
>
> So you can't just add a new disk and use pvmove to move extents off of 
> the failing disk?

You could if it was a linear device, but we are still working on the 
proper stacking of mirrors.

 brassow