David Haller wrote:
Let's say I'd use LVM, what if e.g. /dev/sde shows defects (seen in the SMART data). Can LVM show me what dirs and files(!) I have on the PV(s) on that probably soon-failing drive?
Doesn't matter because in the sane world you're now running LVM over a RAID, right? So the RAID tells you it's replaced /dev/sde with the hot spare and the rebuild is in progress. End of story. :-P
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