On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 02:51:28PM -0700, bmoon wrote:
> LVM gurus,
>
> Are there any documents which can help me to understand the source codes for
> lvm driver, and
> LVM tool?
>
> There are tqo nice documents related with LVM such as
>
> - The logical Volume manager white paper from SUSE
> - Volume managers in Linux - David Teigland & Heinz Mauelshagen.
>
> These helped me to understand the concept of LVM, but they do not cover
> any design concepts or data structure or implementation details.
>
> Yes, I could find some information on each source codes.
>
> Any more?
Bo,
no.
you want to read the source code starting with the metadata definitions
in lvm.h and the metadata read/write routines in:
pv_{read|write}*.c,
vg_{read|write}*.c,
lv_{read|write}*.c
Give LVM2 a glance, which is compatible to LVM1 and has a better
structured library.
>
> Regards,
>
> Bo
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