[linux-lvm] Mirror allocation policy

[Phillip Susi]

Alasdair G Kergon writes:

> So despite that, it's not letting you have the 'anywhere' for the log
> part of the allocation.

Based on the number of extents it said it was looking for, I didn't
think it was the log that it couldn't place.

> However, for what you are doing, maybe you don't need an on-disk mirror
> log or can temporarily borrow a little space (add small temporary
> loopback PV to the VG?) for it?

I could have sworn that I had tried --corelog yesterday and it still
didn't work, but today it did.  Weird.