LVM2 Design Goals: Learn from LVM1

• Minimise the need for user support.

• Do The Right thing for the normal user Out Of The Box.

• Maximise configurability.

• Avoid making assumptions about the system/sysadmin.

• Modularise. Support tool extensions via shared objects.

• Make command lines consistent across tools.

• Be backwards compatible most of the time.

• Make it easy for us to reproduce problems users report.

• Make it hard for users to lose their configuration completely.

• Cope easily with recovery following system failure.