Input Outpout Error

[Kuba Ober]

On Tuesday 06 November 2007, you wrote:

For crying out loud, doing fsck on an LVM volume where pvscan doesn't even 
work is *really* *bad* *advice*. Pvscan can fail like this either due to some 
bug in it (I doubt it), or due to hardware failing.

> Why wouldn't fsck run?  And isn't that the purpose of fsck - to fix errors
> such as this?  With I/O errors, there is clearly a problem with the file
> system.

The I/O errors were present when accessing the physical drives (via pvscan). 
Unless those are spurious errors and pvscan (and lvscan) somehow are buggy 
and emit such errors...

Cheers, Kuba