[linux-lvm] Re: [lvm-devel] *** ANNOUNCEMENT *** LVM 1.1-rc1 available at www.sistina.com
Anselm Kruis
A.Kruis at science-computing.de
Wed Mar 20 09:51:02 UTC 2002
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
> > 1313 5th St SE, Suite 111 E-Mail: lewis at sistina.com
> > Minneapolis, MN 55414
> > http://www.sistina.com
> >
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>
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