LVM2 Resource Page


2023-06-30: Git repository moved to gitlab.com

Introduction

LVM2 refers to the 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 https://sourceware.org/dm/ for information about the device-mapper kernel and userspace components.

Releases

Tarballs of the userspace LVM2 source code releases are available from ftp://sourceware.org/pub/lvm2/.
List of official mirror sites (including http and rsync protocols): https://sourceware.org/mirrors.html.

Mailing lists

linux-lvm is the mailing list for any LVM-related questions and discussion.
Subscribe by sending email to linux-lvm+subscribe@lists.linux.dev.
Unsubscribe by sending email to linux-lvm+unsubscribe@lists.linux.dev.
The list archives are at https://lore.kernel.org/linux-lvm/
The mailing list address is linux-lvm@lists.linux.dev.

All commits are also posted to the lvm-devel mailing list. This is the place to discuss the source code and propose patches.
Subscribe by sending email to lvm-devel+subscribe@lists.linux.dev.
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The list archives are at https://lore.kernel.org/lvm-devel/
The mailing list address is lvm-devel@lists.linux.dev.


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Source code

The source code is stored in git and can be accessed with one of 

	git clone git@gitlab.com:lvmteam/lvm2.git
	git clone https://gitlab.com/lvmteam/lvm2.git

There is a web interface to git at https://gitlab.com/lvmteam/lvm2

Git repository moved to gitlab.com

New source code home is now at https://gitlab.com/lvmteam/lvm2.

To change the repository to new one, run in your clone: 

	git remote rename origin sourceware
	git remote add origin git@gitlab.com:lvmteam/lvm2.git

You may want to set tracking branches: 

	git branch --set-upstream-to origin/main main

Upstream Bug Tracker

Please report upstream bugs or request features in Red Hat Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=LVM%20and%20device-mapper

Documentation

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

We have an old wiki at https://sourceware.org/lvm2/wiki/.

The LVM HOWTO is at http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/index.html. (This document is now very out-of-date.)

IRC

Channel #lvm on Libera.Chat

Source code prior to 7th June 2012

Until 7th June 2012, the primary copy of the source code was maintained under CVS.

Mailing list archives of the CVS commits are available at https://sourceware.org/ml/lvm2-cvs/

To access the old source code repository using CVS:
cvs -d :pserver:cvs@sourceware.org:/cvs/lvm2 login cvs
cvs -d :pserver:cvs@sourceware.org:/cvs/lvm2 checkout LVM2
The password is cvs.

Related projects

The original LVM: https://sourceware.org/lvm/
Device-mapper: https://sourceware.org/dm/