So here’s my issue:
I installed 5 SATA hard discs
I partitioned sda for my root, var, home, etc
I used LVM2 to create a striped array using sdb, sdc, sdd, and sde
In the case of an OS failure where I have to reinstall suse, how would I reinstate the array? Everything I’ve read says once you run the pvcreate command data is lost on that drive.
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Hi ElQueue,
[QUOTE=ElQueue;21075]So here’s my issue:
I installed 5 SATA hard discs
I partitioned sda for my root, var, home, etc
I used LVM2 to create a striped array using sdb, sdc, sdd, and sde
In the case of an OS failure where I have to reinstall suse, how would I reinstate the array? Everything I’ve read says once you run the pvcreate command data is lost on that drive.[/QUOTE]
If you only want to re-install the OS (no drives were failing), LVM then will detect the PVs (by markers created on the disks) and rebuild the stripe set.
Regards,
Jens