LVM not fit for default
Jeffrey C. Ollie
jeff at ocjtech.us
Fri Dec 22 22:52:01 UTC 2006
On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 21:48 +0000, Andy Green wrote:
>
> When LVM fails though, there are no recovery tools. You can recover the
> filesystem inside an LVM (I speak from experience) but your only friends
> are dd and a hex editor. There is no redundancy unlike genuine
> filesystems like ext2/3, if the LVM chunk before the actual filesystem
> is corrupted, the volume won't mount as LVM and that's your lot from the
> One True Way.
And you could have set your laptop on top of a tape degausser. You have
been making regular backups haven't you?
Jeff
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