[lug] lvm and physical volume worries

[Warren Sanders]

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karl horlen wrote:
> I keep seeing an occasional warning in LVM posts and
> documentation that you should NOT span LVM across
> multiple physical volumes because if one PV goes down
> you lose the whole LVM.

I have lost a PV once but only lost data that was physically on that
drive.  I was still able to mount the good drive into another system
to recover critical data.  I was lucky in this situation as my limit
of the LV was slightly over the size of the primary drive; so I didn't
loose much.

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Warren Sanders
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