yes its just a linear lvm. no raid 1, will check with xfs list. thanks

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Chris Murphy <li...@colorremedies.com>
wrote:

>
> On Oct 29, 2014, at 10:03 AM, Gary Artim <gar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I have a xfs filesystem (4 drives) and one died /dev/sdc1. It was used
> for backup and trying to recover one directory. Any ideas would be great. I
> was able to drop the volume that died and have a pv of 3 now, but getting
> lvm to recognize (create a dev) is not happening
> >
> > parted /dev/sdx
> > mklabel gpt
> > mkpart primary xfs 1 -1 (sometime xfs doesnt work until the xfsprogs are
> installed and reboot)
> > set 1 lvm on
> >
> > do this for each drive.
> > pvcreate /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1 /dev/sde1
> > vgcreate backup /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1 /dev/sde1
> > lvcreate -L 9T -n backuplv backup
> > mkfs.xfs -L backuplv /dev/mapper/backup-backuplv
> > /dev/mapper/backup-backuplv /xfs xfs   (in fstab)
>
> I can't tell how the four drives were arranged such that there's one XFS
> volume. Is this LVM linear (default)? If so I'd say it's toast, but whether
> you can maybe mount it ro and use the remaining metadata in each AG to
> extract data on each drive is probably best asked on the XFS list. The same
> applies to md linear/concat. If it's raid0 then it's definitely toast.
>
> I'll assume it's not raid1/mirror or you'd be able to use it degraded and
> recovery is pretty sraightforward.
>
> Chris Murphy
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