[CentOS] OT: Fortunate clueless dd chum - lvm recovery
Chan Chung Hang Christopher
christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk
Sat Aug 15 14:19:59 UTC 2009
Robert Nichols wrote:
> Ross Walker wrote:
>
>> Since you don't know if LVM has a recovery path how can you imply it
>> doesn't?
>>
>
> I've seen plenty of evidence that tools for LVM recovery are lacking.
> I see postings from people asking about recovery of damaged LVM
> volumes and not getting any reasonable answers about how to repair.
>
This might help in future.
http://anthonydawson.thelasis.com/LVRecovery/index.htm
> Or, complexity of dealing with things like duplicate volume group names
> when physically moving disk drives. Conventional partitioning works
> just fine for me, and I'm confident that I can handle just about any
> situation that crops up. I don't need an additional layer of
> complexity.
>
>
Which is why I do not use default names when creating volgroups and logvols.
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