[mdlug] More new hard drive details

[Jeff Hanson]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Aaron Kulkis <akulkis00 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Fortunately, none so far.
> But I've been dealing with LVM systems from various vendors
> since the mid 1990's and the gain in flexibility generally comes
> at the expense of putting another link in a chain of things
> which must NOT have any errors.

That's true with any system.  Greater complexity increases the chance
of failure.

> Where is the current Linux LVM putting the LVM data?
> I can't see it being stored in the boot sectors, because there
> just plain old isn't enough space there.

I remember dumping it once when I was trying to narrow down a Ubuntu
installer bug but I can't find my notes for that.  This article
explains it:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8874