[Gllug] still wondering about lvm

[Ken Smith]

Another LVM question..... I was experimenting with LVM on an old machine 
with 3 disks. The LV was spread over those platters. It's (was) working 
great. It seems that this is the month for disk failures as one of the 3 
is now giving bad block errors. Anyway here is my question.... If I move 
the three disks to another machine to extract a few bits of data I'd 
like to keep does LVM worry that hda has become hdb, hdb has become hdc 
and hdc has become hdd or is the header (metadata) in the PV's enough 
for LVM to find what it needs and sort itself out?  The dying disk is 
hda that has /boot and swap outside of the LV and I think the original 
machine will throw its toys around if the bad blocks are in the swap 
space. Hence the idea of plugging the disks in to another box just to 
retrieve a few files.

Thoughts.... Ken


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