Rodney Baker said the following on 12/29/2009 10:35 AM:
But, I refuse to use LVM after I had an LVM volume irrecoverably corrupted due to a sudden unplanned power outage that even a UPS wouldn't have helped (power supply failure).
That's a shame. I don't know why you suffered that. I have LVM on my laptop and often loose power when the batter runs out. *CRASH* I've pulled power on a few hangs when the hibernate didn't work properly as well. I also have LVM on the server under my desk and I've pulled power on that few times. I've had to do FSCK a few times. :-) I've never lost a file system (I mostly use ReiserFS) and never ever lost LVM-ness in the six years I've had it running on laptops. You didn't say what date this occurred (version of LVM/FS) or if there was disk damage,or if the problem was really with the partition block I'll have to look sometime to see if LVM is like modern file systems in that it encodes its metadata in more than one place. -- Between the iron gates of fate, The seeds of time were sown, And watered by the deeds of those Who know and who are known; Knowledge is a deadly friend When no one sets the rules. The fate of all mankind I see Is in the hands of fools. - Greg Lake -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org