From: Joe Thornber <thornber@fib011235813.fsnet.co.uk> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-lvm@sistina.com, lvm-devel@sistina.com Subject: [ANNOUNCE] LVM reimplementation ready for beta testing Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 20:22:54 +0000 All, Sistina is pleased to announce that the LVM2 software is ready for beta testing. This is a complete reimplementation of the existing LVM system, both driver and userland tools. We encourage you to give it a try and feed back your test results, bug-fixes, enhancement requests etc. through the normal lists linux-lvm@sistina.com and lvm-devel@sistina.com. The new kernel driver (known as "device-mapper") supports volume management in general and is no longer Linux LVM specific. As such it is a separate package from LVM2 which you will need to download and install before building LVM2. ftp://ftp.sistina.com/pub/LVM2/device-mapper/device-mapper-beta1.tgz The userland tools are available from here: ftp://ftp.sistina.com/pub/LVM2/tools/LVM2.0-beta1.tgz This release does not support snapshots or pvmove. These features will go into a subsequent beta release, hopefully within the next fortnight. This is Beta software which is *not* meant to be running on your production systems. If necessary, keep backups of your data and LVM metadata (/etc/lvmconf/*). We look forward to your feedback. The Sistina LVM team: Patrick Caulfield, Alasdair Kergon, Heinz Mauelshagen, Joe Thornber - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/