[mdlug] More new hard drive details

[Garry Stahl]

Aaron Kulkis wrote:
> That's all well and nice, but it doesn't tell us much.  The crucial
> piece of the pie is the LVM configuration -- even if NONE of your
> non-root partitions gets corrupted, if the LVM config is corrupted,
> then the rest of the partitions are.... recoverably ONLY with the
> investment of significant time and $$$.
>
> As for the filesystems themselves, they don't care whether they
> are on an LVM or not... the filesystem is just a string of bytes,
> whether on one contigous partition, or in blocks added willy-nilly
> from several block devices.
>   


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