There are tarballs available for the second beta test of LVM2. ftp://ftp.sistina.com/pub/LVM2/tools/LVM2.0-beta2.0.tgz ftp://ftp.sistina.com/pub/LVM2/device-mapper/device-mapper-beta2.0.tgz The main new addition to the release is that we have begun merging in the asynchronous snapshot code. This code tries to minimise the time taken to perform the copy on write operation. In addition it has identical performance at all snapshot chunk sizes, unlike LVM1 and EVMS whose performance degrades exponentially as the chunk size decreases. The default snapshot chunk size for LVM2 has now dropped to 16k, it may be reduced further depending on test results. Please not that although snapshots are available in this release they are currently non-persistent, ie. the snapshot will be lost if you deactivate it, or reboot the machine. Persistent snapshots will follow shortly. - Joe _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html
