What is new in LVM - 1.0.8 17/11/2003 see CHANGELOG for bug fixes -------------------------------------------------------------------------- What is new in LVM - 1.0.7 28/02/2003 see CHANGELOG for bug fixes -------------------------------------------------------------------------- What is new in LVM - 1.0.6 25/10/2002 see CHANGELOG for bug fixes o Default PE size for vgcreate is now 32MB -------------------------------------------------------------------------- What is new in LVM - 1.0.5 15/07/2002 No new features - see the CHANGELOG for bug fixes -------------------------------------------------------------------------- What is new in LVM - 1.0.4 02/05/2002 o support for NBD -------------------------------------------------------------------------- What is new in LVM - 1.0.3 19/02/2002 o pvcreate: - option '-s' Overwrite the device size. See CHANGELOG for more details. o pvmove: - option '-i' ignore read errors on flaky or otherwise inaccessible devices - Support for moves in inactive volumes o vgcfgrestore - option '-b' Use to give a backup history number together with '-n VolumeGroupName' - option '-i' Ignore the size of the device to be restored to o vgscan - option '-f' Force changes of volume group and device numbers - option '-r' Remove all snapshots in all volume groups or in a specific volume group. See CHANGELOG for more details. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- What is new in LVM - 1.0.2 23/01/2002 o Persistent LV device minors o Support loop devices o ataraid device support -------------------------------------------------------------------------- What is new in LVM - 1.0.1 26/11/2001 No new features, but see the CHANGELOG for bug fixes -------------------------------------------------------------------------- What is new in LVM - 1.0.1-rc4 03/10/2001 Bugfix: - There was a bad checkin just prior to the release tag that messed up compilation of the kernel driver. It is fixed now. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- What is new in LVM - 1.0.1-rc3 01/10/2001 Feature freeze: - see CHANGELOG -------------------------------------------------------------------------- What is new in LVM - 1.0.1-rc2 14/08/2001 If you are upgrading from LVM 0.9.1 beta7 or earlier: **** PLEASE READ README.1st **** -------------------------------------------------------------------------- What is new in LVM - 0.9.1_beta8 05/04/2001 On disk data format changed (slightly), upgrade tool needs to be run. **** PLEASE READ README.1st **** -------------------------------------------------------------------------- What is new in LVM - 0.9.1_beta6 06/03/2001 Feature freeze: - several bugs fixed (see CHANGELOG) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- What was new in LVM - 0.9.1_beta5 20/02/2001 Feature freeze: - several bugs fixed (see CHANGELOG) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- What was new in LVM - 0.9.1_beta4 09/02/2001 Feature freeze: - several bugs fixed (see CHANGELOG) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- What was new in LVM - 0.9.1_beta3 25/01/2001 Features: - several bugs fixed (see CHANGELOG) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- What was new in LVM - 0.9.1_beta2 18/01/2001 Features: - several bugs fixed (see CHANGELOG) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- What was new in LVM - 0.9.1_beta1 12/01/2001 Support for: - Linux 2.2.18 and Linux 2.4.0 Features: - several bugs fixed (see CHANGELOG) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- What was new in LVM - 0.9 13/11/2000 Support for: - Linux 2.2.17 and Linux 2.4.0-test10 (including previous 2.4.0 test kernels) Features: - Persistent snapshot logical volumes - Resizable snapshot logical volumes - API to request the use rate of a snapshot logical volume - Integration with VFS to consistently mount ReiserFS filesystems on snapshots (VFS patch necessary) - Physical Volume and Volume Group UUID support - default Volume Group in environment variable LVM_VG_NAME for lv*(8) commands - /proc/lvm/ directory hierarchy easing to parse VGDA information - basic devfs support - autoconf based -------------------------------------------------------------------------- What was new in LVM - 0.8final 10/07/2000 Support for: - Linux up to 2.3.47 (request queue handler and block device registration changes) - Linux 2.2.14 (bigmem + rawio patches necessary!) Features: - support for multiple snapshot logical volumes per original logical volume to for eg. enable consistent online backups or recovery in filesystems and database systems. - all errors now in plain text rather than numeric - variable VGDA backup history depth in /etc/lvmconf supported by environment variable LVM_VG_MAX_BACKUPS (see vgcreate(8) and others) - automatic backup can be suppressed by environment variable LVM_AUTOBACKUP (see vgcreate(8) and others) during bulk creates. (the possibility to use option "-A n" with all changing commands still exists) - enhanced debug tracing (Option -d of the tools) to show call depth -------------------------------------------------------------------------- What was new in LVM - 0.8 02/10/1999 Support for: - Linux up to 2.3.15 Features: - support for long command line options - mutiple exit states for use in shell script etc. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- What was new in LVM - 0.7 12/07/1999 Support for: - Linux up to 2.3.9 Features: - loop devices can be used as physical volumes for testing or evaluation purposes - correction of block device major in case of existing VGs with pre official one - support to create an initial ramdisk to have the root filesystem in a logical volume - support for volume group and logical volume names containing '.' - /proc/partitions support regardless of Linux version - larger stripe sizes up to 512k -------------------------------------------------------------------------- What was new in LVM - 0.6 26/02/1999 Support for: - Linux 2.2.2 Features: - the strict limit of 8 volume groups with up to 31 logical volumes each is gone: you can have 1 volume group with up to 256 logical volumes of 99 volume groups with 2 or 3 logical volumes each or every mixture in between as well. See vgchange(8). - sizes can have units now; for eg. you are able to enter the logical volume size in megabytes, gigabytes and terabytes 8*) - read ahead sectors now can be choosed on a per logical volume base with lvcreate(8)/lvchange(8); no global setting with lvmchange(8) any longer - new options s and n for pvscan(8) - /proc/partitions fully supported with kernel 2.2.1 now -------------------------------------------------------------------------- What was new in LVM - 0.5alpha 30/01/1999 Support for: - glib2 (libc6) - Linux 2.2.x, 2.0.36 - full devfs name space (see ) - make [menu|x]config - official device major numbers - egcs-1.1.1 Features: - WARNING: data layer implemented to handle vgexport/vgimport between different architectures (for eg. Intel/Alpha). Should there be any != Intel LVM installations out there you have to backup your LVs, delete them and the VGs and reconfigure them after upgrading to this LVM version _or_ you have to ask me for a conversion tool 8*))) - i/o statistics by lvmsadc(8) and lvmsar(8) (have to be enhanced ;*) ) - e2fsadm(8) to resize LVs and contained unmonuted ;*( ext2 filsystems using Ted Tso's resize2fs (ask as a Partition Magic license owner) - now pvmove(8) can handle lists of PEs/LEs to be moved - tools return more exit states then 0 and 1; see corresponding tool manual See CHANGELOG for details.