On Wednesday 23 April 2008, Matt Harrison wrote:
> On a side not, I'm not sure if this could the problem:
>
> I've got one disk on one of my pairs failed. There's a replacement
> disk arriving tomorrow, but the stripe (thats built out of 3 mirrored
> pairs) won't start on its own, I have to manually rebuild the array
> after boot.
>
> This shouldn't stop it detecting lvm partitions manually should it?

In my experience, no. As long as raid can present a consistent block
device, lvm does what it should. RAID is designed to do that in a
mirror configuration.


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