[CentOS] OT: Fortunate clueless dd chum - lvm recovery

Sat Aug 15 17:34:49 UTC 2009
Jason Pyeron <jpyeron at pdinc.us>

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org 
> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Chan Chung 
> Hang Christopher
> Sent: Saturday, August 15, 2009 10:20
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] OT: Fortunate clueless dd chum - lvm recovery
> 
> 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.

I always found it handy to use ASSET#_VG#_YYYYMMDDHHMM as a "default" pattern
here.

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