On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 12:35:05AM -0700, Kai-Min Sung wrote: > I can see a way of guaranteeing atomicity by > maintaining two VGDA sections and including a timestamp at the end of > each write. Does LVM do something like this? The format 2 metadata does indeed use a scheme like this. If you use format1 metadata with LVM2 (i.e. just upgrade your tools from LVM1 without subsequently upgrading your metadata), you will not have this crucial protection. - Joe _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
