LVM Crashed and lost half of my shows. How to fix?
So over the night I guess my lvm of 4 hard drives crashed. I was also running torrentflux on it, an d it had a 52.2gb torrent at 97 percent when I went to bed. I wake up and mythweb really isnt working and torrentflux wasn't uploading or downloading anything. So i end up just telling the box to restart from my bedroom but after about 10 minutes I still couldnt re ssh back in. I finally go to the server closet and turn it off and then turn it back on and continue on in my morning routine. Still another 10 minutes and I can't log back in. I then kill the box again and turn it back on. It then says it has to perform a check on the lvm and it then fails and drops me to root for maintence. Running fsck didn't fix it but then I ran fsck -y and that finally said it got itself fixed after a very long time.
When the computer finally boots up and mythtv pops up I go out to another computer and ssh in. I go to my /storage directory which is an lvm of 3 full drives and then part of another with at total 1.1tb. I then see that my whole torrents directory is gone, I had over 100gbs of torrents. I think look at my mythweb backend status and see that I know have 544gbs free when before I had about 70. Mythweb still says that I have 850gbs worth of television.
How should I go about fixing this. Should I just delete the rest of the recordings and then remove all the shows in the database or what? and How would I go about doing that.
Also, why would this have happened?
I am bewildered by this whole situation and would love some help.
Thanks,
Zachary

It sounds like you have no
It sounds like you have no redundancy there. If you lost a full drive, your logical volume is toast. About the only thing you can do is do an lvreduce and and resize2fs and shrink the filesystem and volume to match the drives that are available.
If you intend on using 4 drives you should use a RAID configuration of some sort, then put your LVM on top of that. Like if you created /dev/mdX that was a RAID5 of 4 disks. You could then use LVM to create logical volumes on that.
You're asking for trouble running in the configuration that you were.
Maybe some help
Maybe some help here.
http://mythdora.com/?q=node/664
"Please ignore the man behind the curtain"
Dennis
"Please ignore the man behind the curtain"
Dennis