LVM Resource Page

Introduction

This web page is about the original version of LVM, included in many 2.4 kernels. There is no longer any active development on this project - only bug fixes. Current development is focussed on LVM2.

Releases

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

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 lvm-cvs mailing list. This list is run using ezmlm.
To subscribe, send an email to lvm-cvs-subscribe@sources.redhat.com or lvm-cvs-digest-subscribe@sources.redhat.com.
You can read the list archives at http://sources.redhat.com/ml/lvm-cvs/

Source code

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

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

Documentation

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

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

Related projects

LVM2, the new version of LVM: http://sources.redhat.com/lvm2/
Device-mapper: http://sources.redhat.com/dm/