On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 01:42:54PM -0700, Lee Go-Tze wrote: > I have a novice question. How does the LVM > protect its metadata. I mean does it do some > sort of metadata check when machine comes up > (notices the system did not shutdown properly)? > Or maybe it uses journaling? I imagine the > updates to lv/vg/pv structures have to be > transactional. Transactional updates will go into LVM after mid November. Checksums for the metadata will also go in at this point. ATM problems are spotted by consistency checks (the is a lot of duplication between the pv's). If a problem is spotted the administrator can restore from the automatic metadata backups. - Joe
