Input Outpout Error

[Cathy Reaves]

> Pvscan can fail like this either due to some
> bug in it (I doubt it), or due to hardware failing.
So you are saying that there is an issue with the hardware?

Cheers, Cathy

On Nov 6, 2007 11:10 AM, Kuba Ober <kuba at mareimbrium.org> wrote:

> 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
>
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