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On 3/29/2010 3:05 PM, malahal@us.ibm.com wrote:
> Currently it has snapshot and mirror (raid1) plugins. The mirror part
> does monitor (event based) for failed legs or logs and takes some
> actions. At the moment, all of its configuration is in /etc/lvm/lvm.conf
> file. Look at activation section.
> 
> 1) It doesn't notify the admin.
> 2) It doesn't automatically rebuild with a given sparse disk. Although
>    you can use "allocate" to get this kind of feature. I have not
>    tested this feature though!

Ahh there it is, all described in the conf file comments.  Just wasn't
described in the man page for it.  Thanks.