[linux-lvm] Disk crash , LVM and ext2... (bis)

Emmanuel Varagnat emmanuel.varagnat at free.fr
Wed Sep 25 02:43:09 UTC 2002


Patrick Caulfield wrote:
>
> LVM1 can't retrieve data from a VG with a crashed PV (That's what your backups
> are for).
> 
> LVM2 can if you active the VG with the -P (--partial) flag. LVM2 can read LVM2
> metadata.

This system was on a Slackware 8.0, with a 2.4.18 kernel and LVM 
compiled by myself (can't remember the version).

I'm gonna take a look a this.
Thanks.


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