[linux-lvm] Simulating LVM Mirror Failure and recovery
Tomasz Chmielewski
mangoo at wpkg.org
Thu Apr 16 12:26:58 UTC 2009
vu pham schrieb:
>> as per the redhat guide this should result in mirror leg failure and
>> any subsequent write activity to the mirror should convert the mirror
>> into linear volume. but the output of lvs command still shows copy %
>> as 100%. also data in filesystem of lv1 is erased and it is converted
>> into read only filesystem.
>>
>> can anyone please let us know the correct way to simulate lvm mirror
>> failure and recovery.
>>
>> thanks and regards
>
> I think to simulate error failure you have to write to the underlying
> devices, not the mirrored device. When you write to the mirrored device,
> lvl1 in this case, data is mirrored so there is no failure at all. So I
> think you have to dd to either /dev/sda3 or /dev/sdb3.
How will LVM distinguish between a valid and invalid copy in that case?
Are you sure that on reads, LVM will return data from the "good" copy,
not the one you just overwrote with "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb
seek=xxx bs=1M count=10"?
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Tomasz Chmielewski
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