What is new in LVM - 1.0.8 17/11/2003
see CHANGELOG for bug fixes
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What is new in LVM - 1.0.7 28/02/2003
see CHANGELOG for bug fixes
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What is new in LVM - 1.0.6 25/10/2002
see CHANGELOG for bug fixes
o Default PE size for vgcreate is now 32MB
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What is new in LVM - 1.0.5 15/07/2002
No new features - see the CHANGELOG for bug fixes
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What is new in LVM - 1.0.4 02/05/2002
o support for NBD
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What is new in LVM - 1.0.3 19/02/2002
o pvcreate:
- option '-s'
Overwrite the device size. See CHANGELOG for more details.
o pvmove:
- option '-i'
ignore read errors on flaky or otherwise inaccessible devices
- Support for moves in inactive volumes
o vgcfgrestore
- option '-b'
Use to give a backup history number together with
'-n VolumeGroupName'
- option '-i'
Ignore the size of the device to be restored to
o vgscan
- option '-f'
Force changes of volume group and device numbers
- option '-r'
Remove all snapshots in all volume groups or in a specific
volume group. See CHANGELOG for more details.
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What is new in LVM - 1.0.2 23/01/2002
o Persistent LV device minors
o Support loop devices
o ataraid device support
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What is new in LVM - 1.0.1 26/11/2001
No new features, but see the CHANGELOG for bug fixes
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What is new in LVM - 1.0.1-rc4 03/10/2001
Bugfix:
- There was a bad checkin just prior to the release tag that
messed up compilation of the kernel driver. It is fixed now.
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What is new in LVM - 1.0.1-rc3 01/10/2001
Feature freeze:
- see CHANGELOG
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What is new in LVM - 1.0.1-rc2 14/08/2001
If you are upgrading from LVM 0.9.1 beta7 or earlier:
**** PLEASE READ README.1st ****
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What is new in LVM - 0.9.1_beta8 05/04/2001
On disk data format changed (slightly), upgrade tool needs to be run.
**** PLEASE READ README.1st ****
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What is new in LVM - 0.9.1_beta6 06/03/2001
Feature freeze:
- several bugs fixed (see CHANGELOG)
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What was new in LVM - 0.9.1_beta5 20/02/2001
Feature freeze:
- several bugs fixed (see CHANGELOG)
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What was new in LVM - 0.9.1_beta4 09/02/2001
Feature freeze:
- several bugs fixed (see CHANGELOG)
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What was new in LVM - 0.9.1_beta3 25/01/2001
Features:
- several bugs fixed (see CHANGELOG)
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What was new in LVM - 0.9.1_beta2 18/01/2001
Features:
- several bugs fixed (see CHANGELOG)
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What was new in LVM - 0.9.1_beta1 12/01/2001
Support for:
- Linux 2.2.18 and Linux 2.4.0
Features:
- several bugs fixed (see CHANGELOG)
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What was new in LVM - 0.9 13/11/2000
Support for:
- Linux 2.2.17 and Linux 2.4.0-test10
(including previous 2.4.0 test kernels)
Features:
- Persistent snapshot logical volumes
- Resizable snapshot logical volumes
- API to request the use rate of a snapshot logical volume
- Integration with VFS to consistently mount ReiserFS filesystems
on snapshots (VFS patch necessary)
- Physical Volume and Volume Group UUID support
- default Volume Group in environment variable LVM_VG_NAME
for lv*(8) commands
- /proc/lvm/ directory hierarchy easing to parse VGDA information
- basic devfs support
- autoconf based
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What was new in LVM - 0.8final 10/07/2000
Support for:
- Linux up to 2.3.47
(request queue handler and block device registration changes)
- Linux 2.2.14 (bigmem + rawio patches necessary!)
Features:
- support for multiple snapshot logical volumes per original
logical volume to for eg. enable consistent online backups
or recovery in filesystems and database systems.
- all errors now in plain text rather than numeric
- variable VGDA backup history depth in /etc/lvmconf supported
by environment variable LVM_VG_MAX_BACKUPS (see vgcreate(8) and others)
- automatic backup can be suppressed by environment variable
LVM_AUTOBACKUP (see vgcreate(8) and others) during bulk creates.
(the possibility to use option "-A n" with all
changing commands still exists)
- enhanced debug tracing (Option -d of the tools) to show call depth
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What was new in LVM - 0.8 02/10/1999
Support for:
- Linux up to 2.3.15
Features:
- support for long command line options
- mutiple exit states for use in shell script etc.
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What was new in LVM - 0.7 12/07/1999
Support for:
- Linux up to 2.3.9
Features:
- loop devices can be used as physical volumes for
testing or evaluation purposes
- correction of block device major in case of existing VGs with
pre official one
- support to create an initial ramdisk to have the root filesystem
in a logical volume
- support for volume group and logical volume names containing '.'
- /proc/partitions support regardless of Linux version
- larger stripe sizes up to 512k
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What was new in LVM - 0.6 26/02/1999
Support for:
- Linux 2.2.2
Features:
- the strict limit of 8 volume groups with up to 31 logical
volumes each is gone: you can have 1 volume group with up to
256 logical volumes of 99 volume groups with 2 or 3 logical volumes each
or every mixture in between as well.
See vgchange(8).
- sizes can have units now; for eg. you are able to enter
the logical volume size in megabytes, gigabytes and terabytes 8*)
- read ahead sectors now can be choosed on a per logical
volume base with lvcreate(8)/lvchange(8);
no global setting with lvmchange(8) any longer
- new options s and n for pvscan(8)
- /proc/partitions fully supported with kernel 2.2.1 now
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What was new in LVM - 0.5alpha 30/01/1999
Support for:
- glib2 (libc6)
- Linux 2.2.x, 2.0.36
- full devfs name space
(see <http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/kernel-patches.html>)
- make [menu|x]config
- official device major numbers
- egcs-1.1.1
Features:
- WARNING: data layer implemented to handle vgexport/vgimport between
different architectures (for eg. Intel/Alpha).
Should there be any != Intel LVM installations out there you have
to backup your LVs, delete them and the VGs and reconfigure them after
upgrading to this LVM version
_or_
you have to ask me for a conversion tool 8*)))
- i/o statistics by lvmsadc(8) and lvmsar(8) (have to be enhanced ;*) )
- e2fsadm(8) to resize LVs and contained unmonuted ;*( ext2 filsystems using
Ted Tso's resize2fs (ask <support@powerquest.com> as a Partition Magic
license owner)
- now pvmove(8) can handle lists of PEs/LEs to be moved
- tools return more exit states then 0 and 1; see corresponding tool manual
See CHANGELOG for details.