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Example: ~> lvconvert --type raid1 -m 1 vg/lv The following steps are performed to convert linear to RAID1: 1) Allocate a metadata device from the same PV as the linear device to provide the metadata/data LV pair required for all RAID components. 2) Allocate the required number of metadata/data LV pairs for the remaining additional images. 3) Clear the metadata LVs. This performs a LVM metadata update. 4) Create the top-level RAID LV and add the component devices. We want to make any failure easy to unwind. This is why we don't create the top-level LV and add the components until the last step. Should anything happen before that, the user could simply remove the unnecessary images. Also, we want to ensure that the metadata LVs are cleared before forming the array to prevent stale information from polluting the new array. A new macro 'seg_is_linear' was added to allow us to distinguish linear LVs from striped LVs.