Logical Volume Management West Yorkshire Linux User Group Monday 9th February 2004 Alasdair Kergon agk@redhat.com

Logical Volume Management

Advantages of LVM

LVM Background

Why LVM2?

LVM2 Design Goals: Learn from LVM1

Some LVM commands

The Device Mapper

Device Mapper Mappings

Mapped Devices

Some Mappings

dmsetup

LVM2 Tool Enhancements (1)

LVM2 Tool Enhancements (2)

LVM2 Tool Enhancements (3)

LVM2 Tool Enhancements (4)

Metadata

Text Metadata Format (1)

Text Metadata Format (2)

Links