Re: Snapshot feature problems with kernel 2.6.21.6

John Lange <[email protected]> Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:39:23 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.linux.evms.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Excellent.

One question; what is the probability of data-loss?

The problem in this case is that the shared storage (Fibre SAN) is so
large (12 Tb) it can't be backed up.

The data is not mission critical so a complete loss is not catastrophic
but it is somewhat embarrassing.

John

On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 22:27 +0200, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 03:13:48PM -0500, John Lange wrote:
> > How can one backout of an EVMS system without rebuilding?
> > 
> > Is that possible?
> > 
> > I would like to covert the drives back to simple LVM.
> 
> Convert all the volumes to compatibility volumes. Uninstall EVMS. Regenerate
> your initrd if any. Change your RAID partition types to 0xfd from 0x83 if you
> want the kernel to do the detection work.
> 
> That's it.
> 
> /* Steinar */


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