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

[Anselm Kruis]

On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, Heinz J . Mauelshagen wrote:

> 
> Thanks AJ!
> 
> And I even forgot to mention writable snapshots and pvresize ;-)
Excelent. :-))

Regards Anselm

> 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
> > Sistina Software Inc.                  Voice:  612-638-0500
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> > Minneapolis, MN 55414
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> > 
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> 
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