[linux-lvm] Protection of used scsi disks by LVM

[Andi Kleen]

On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 03:52:47PM +0200, Sergey Vichik wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have a question : 
> Why does LVM not protect the scsi devices which are used for volumes ?
> 
> I can easily go to /dev/sda1 for example, and erase everything on it.
> 
> Of course it is a stupid thing to do, but there is a minimal requirement on
> protection, isn't it ?

<as folklore says:>

Unix/Linux doesn't stop you (=root) from doing stupid things, because
that would stop you from doing clever things.


-Andi