Re: lvm vs traditional partitioning

[Jay Zach <jzach@zachfamily.org>]

On Saturday 23 December 2006 12:30, Alan Chandler wrote:
> On Friday 22 December 2006 23:05, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > I don't know about booting LVM, though. I
> > think you still need traditional partitions for that.
>

> I have everything on raid but not lvm - but LVM I then use for
>
>

I've played around with LVM a bit, but not a LOT....

I've often wondered if you have non-raid partitions making up the PV's of the 
LV's, and had a PV fail what would happen....  
Since all the PV's are lumped together, would one just have random data loss 
across the LV?  That seems like it would be a pain in the behind to restore 
if that was the case....  Has anyone here lost a disk in a volume and can 
answer to that?   (of course if one had mirrored disks making up the PV's 
that wouldn't be a concern)

Any insight would be appreciated :)

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