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-The system ID does not protect devices in VG from programs other than LVM.
+The system ID does not protect devices in a VG from programs other than LVM.
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-A host using an old version of LVM without the system ID feature will not
-recognize a system ID in VGs from other hosts. Even though the old
-version of LVM is not blocked from reading a VG with a system ID, it is
-blocked from writing to the VG (or its LVs). The system ID feature
-changes the write mode of a VG, making it appear read-only to previous
-versions of LVM.
-
-This also means that if a host downgrades its version of LVM, it would
+A host using an old LVM version (without the system ID feature) will not
+recognize a system ID set in VGs. The old LVM can read a VG with a
+system ID, but is prevented from writing to the VG (or its LVs).
+The system ID feature changes the write mode of a VG, making it appear
+read-only to previous versions of LVM.
+
+This also means that if a host downgrades to the old LVM version, it would
lose access to any VGs it had created with a system ID. To avoid this,
-the system ID should be removed from VGs before downgrading to an LVM
+the system ID should be removed from local VGs before downgrading LVM to a
version without the system ID feature.