LVM2 Resource Page

Introduction

LVM2 refers to a new userspace toolset that provide logical volume management facilities on linux. It is reasonably backwards-compatible with the original LVM toolset.

To use LVM2 you need 3 things: device-mapper in your kernel, the userspace device-mapper support library (libdevmapper) and the userspace LVM2 tools. Please look at http://sources.redhat.com/dm/ for information about the device-mapper kernel and userspace components.

Releases

Tarballs of the userspace LVM2 source code releases are available from ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/lvm2/.

Mailing lists

linux-lvm is the mailing list for any LVM-related questions and discussion.
Subscribe to this from https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm.
The list archives are at https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-lvm/.
The mailing list address is linux-lvm@redhat.com.

Whenever the development source code repository is updated, email is sent to the lvm2-cvs mailing list. This is a read-only list run using ezmlm.
To subscribe, send an email to lvm2-cvs-subscribe@sources.redhat.com or lvm2-cvs-digest-subscribe@sources.redhat.com.
You can read the list archives at http://sources.redhat.com/ml/lvm2-cvs/

All CVS commits are also posted to the lvm-devel mailing list. This is the place to discuss the source code and propose patches.
Subscribe to this from https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/lvm-devel.
The list archives are at https://www.redhat.com/archives/lvm-devel/.
The mailing list address is lvm-devel@redhat.com.

Please note that messages containing HTML or attachments will rarely make it through the spam filters onto the lists. Large log files, for example, should be put on the web - use a service such as http://pastebin.com/ if necessary - and the URL sent to the list instead.

Source code

To access the source code repository using CVS:
cvs -d :pserver:cvs@sources.redhat.com:/cvs/lvm2 login cvs
cvs -d :pserver:cvs@sources.redhat.com:/cvs/lvm2 checkout LVM2
The password is cvs.

There is a web interface to CVS at http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/LVM2/?cvsroot=lvm2.

Documentation

There are README, INSTALL files and man pages in the source package.

We have started a wiki at http://sources.redhat.com/lvm2/wiki/.

The LVM HOWTO is at http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/index.html.

IRC

Channel #lvm on freenode

Related projects

The original LVM: http://sources.redhat.com/lvm/
Device-mapper: http://sources.redhat.com/dm/