Fedora 7 install: DISK failure consideration

[Kam Leo]

On 6/2/07, Tony Nelson <tonynelson at georgeanelson.com> wrote:
> At 3:35 PM -0700 6/2/07, Kam Leo wrote:
> >On 6/2/07, Tony Nelson <tonynelson at georgeanelson.com> wrote:
> >> At 2:30 PM -0700 6/2/07, Kam Leo wrote:
> >>  ...
> >> >... LVM rides on top of EXT3
> >>
> >> LVM has nothing at all to do with EXT3 or any other filesystem.  It does
> >> not "ride on top of" anything other than DeviceMapper.
> >
> >Where did you get that little factoid? Here's where I got mine:
> >
> >http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/sysadmin-guide/ch-lvm-intro.html
>
> You misunderstood it completely, and you're looking at the wrong page; the
> correct page is
> <http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/sysadmin-guide/s1-lvm2-intro-whatis.html>
> .  That's because Fedora uses LVM2.  Or try the README that comes with
> lvm2.  There's also a Wikipedia article on LVM.
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Take a good look at Figure 8.10 at
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/sysadmin-guide/s1-lvm-diskdruid-manual.html.
The underlying file system is ext3.

Here is another diagram so you can truly understand the structure behind LVM:
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/anatomy.html.