RAID1 or LVM quesiton

[Jerry Feldman]

On 08/16/2010 05:36 PM, Dan Ritter wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 05:31:15PM -0400, Ian Levesque wrote:
>  =20
>>>>> The partitions on both /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc are Linux LVM (8e).
>>>>>
>>>>>          =20
>>>> Then it's not a software RAID (otherwise you'd have formatted them '=
fd').
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>        =20
>>> Actually it is:
>>> [gaf at boslc06 ~]$ sudo mdadm -q /dev/sdb1
>>> /dev/sdb1: is not an md array
>>> /dev/sdb1: device 1 in 2 device undetected raid1 /dev/md0.  Use mdadm=

>>> --examine for more detail.
>>>      =20
>> So, `fdisk -l /dev/sdb` tells you that sdb1 is type '8e'? If so, sound=
s like someone messed up when they formatted those disks :)
>>    =20
> Remember, it's an advisory flag, not part of actually
> constructing the filesystem.  You can set anything you want, and
> the only drawback that I'm aware of is that you won't be able
> to have some things happen automatically.
>
>
>  =20
Bottom line is that once I was able to activate this, I was able to
bring it back online.

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