[linux-lvm] what's different between LVM 2 and LVM 1

Fri Aug 30 04:48:01 UTC 2002

On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 11:24:03AM +0200, Pierrick PONS wrote:
> just a stupid question :
> Why does LVM2 was not a version of lvm so that we just had to upgrade LVM ?

You will be able to upgrade from LVM1.

> If LVM2 is just an upgrade of LVM1, why couldn't you continue with lvm-xxxxx ?

Because LVM2 is a complete rewrite, and we wanted to avoid confusion
between the two products.  If you look you will find that the LVM2
tools currently return a version number of 1.95.x.

- Joe