>>> On 12/17/2013 at 10:55 AM, Martha McConaghy <u...@vm.marist.edu> wrote: > Setting up the mirroring is not a problem. My question is more related to > recovery. I don't know a lot about how LVM works. How much about the > volume > is stored on the LUN itself and how much is stored elsewhere in the opsys > filesystem?
All of the metadata needed to reconstruct the VG is on the physical disk itself. The only time you need anything from /etc/lvm/ is when any of that gets damaged and needs to be rewritten. > If we have a recovery server pointed to the mirrored volume, > will it see the LVM metadata? It should, yes. > Any hints/tips on mirroring LVM volumes? Or, should we stay away from LVM > for anything we want to mirror? You can also use LVM itself to mirror the data. See "man lvcreate" for the -m/--mirrors option. Either way, I don't see any reason why you shouldn't use the SVC itself to mirror the disk(s). Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
