[linux-lvm] Re: [lvm-devel] *** ANNOUNCEMENT *** LVM 1.1-rc1 available at www.sistina.com

[Heinz J . Mauelshagen]

Thanks AJ!

And I even forgot to mention writable snapshots and pvresize ;-)
Need to rework CHANGELOG later...

Regards,
Heinz    -- The LVM Guy --


On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 02:52:57PM -0600, AJ Lewis wrote:
> Hi all - Heinz is unavailable, so I'm sending this out for him:
> 
> LVM 1.1-rc1 release candidate supports both version 1 and 2 of the metadata.
> 
> Disclaimer:
> -----------
> This is not meant to be used on production systems!
> 
> 
> There's *no* need to run any metadata update tools.
> 
> Please test this release candidate and feed back results to the linux-lvm
> list in order to help us to release 1.1 ASAP.
> 
> A tarball is available now at
> 
>    <http://www.sistina.com/>
> 
> for download (Follow the "LVM 1.1-rc1" link).
> 
> 
> Changes to LVM 1.1-rc1 include:
> 
> o volume group quorum support is in enabling optional activation of volume
>   groups (vgchange -qn) in case at least one physical volume out of many is
>   still accessable enabling retrieval of data in logical volumes allocated
>   on the accessable devices
> 
> o vgimport supports importing by volume group name rather than requiring
>   a physical volume list
> 
> o creation of metadata backup files in /etc/lvmtab* and metadata archives in
>   /etc/lvmconf/ is now optional to help saving space for eg. on ram disks.
>   If vgscan is not run at all and /etc/lvmtab* are removed, no backup files
>   will be created.  If vgcfgbackup is not run at all and /etc/lvmconf/ is
>   removed, no archive files will be created.
> 
> o locations of metadata backups and archives are configurable through
>   environment varibles LVM_BACKUP_INDEX/LVM_BACKUP_DIR and LVM_ARCHIVE_DIR
>   respectively
> 
> o volume group static mode in order to avoid all configuration changes to a
>   volume group once set. This is useful to 'freeze' a volume group in order
>   to activate it in a cluster of for fail-over configurations
> 
> o the llseek cast bug has been fixed, which caused pvmove to fail beyond the
>   2GB offset
> 
> 
> o more...
> 
> 
> See the CHANGELOG file contained in the tarball for further information.
> 
> Feed back LVM related information to <linux-lvm at sistina.com>.
> 
> Thanks a lot for your support of LVM.
> 
> -- 
> AJ Lewis
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