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From: Brian Murrell <brian@interlinx.bc.ca>
To: linux-lvm@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] How to handle Bad Block relocation with LVM?
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 13:27:44 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20121128T142616-703@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20030214172615.GA2438@fib011235813.fsnet.co.uk

Joe Thornber <joe <at> fib011235813.fsnet.co.uk> writes:
> 
> Eric,
> 
> We would like to automate the process that you have described in LVM2
> at some point.  So if you get an error on an LV and new PE will be
> allocated, as much data as possible copied from the bad PE to the new
> PE, and then remap the LV so that it's using the new PE (very much
> like a small pvmove).
> 
> The EVMS team are writing a bad block relocator target for device
> mapper, but I don't feel it's neccessary to add yet another device
> layer to the LVs.  If I have a bad block I don't mind loosing a whole
> PE (people may not agree with me on this ?)

To resurrect a really, really, old thread, did anything ever get done in LVM2
to either automatically or manually map out PEs with bad blocks in them?

Does anyone have a recipe for doing this -- to save me the time of figuring it 
all out for myself?

Cheers,
b.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-28 13:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-14  8:52 [linux-lvm] Re: How to handle Bad Block relocation with LVM? Eric Hopper
2003-02-14 11:27 ` Joe Thornber
2012-11-28 13:27   ` Brian Murrell [this message]
2012-11-28 13:57     ` [linux-lvm] " Zdenek Kabelac
2012-11-29 12:26       ` Brian J. Murrell
2012-11-29 14:04         ` Lars Ellenberg
2012-11-29 22:53           ` Brian J. Murrell
2012-11-29 15:55       ` Stuart D Gathman
2012-11-30  0:10         ` Brian J. Murrell
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2023-03-15 16:00 Roland
2003-02-10 19:18 Rocky Lee
2003-02-11  8:24 ` Heinz J . Mauelshagen

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