I had the unpleasant experience of having my system not booting because I had apparently messed up adding a new whole disk to the volume group. The LVM tools create backup data in /etc/lvm/backup. However, since root uses LVM, there's little chance in actually being able to use the backup data if the volume group goes bad. Since /boot is a normal partition and accessible in a rescue situation, wouldn't it make more sense to have /etc/lvm be a symlink to /boot/lvm? This way the data should be available. -- Jeff Macdonald Ayer, MA
