Hi All, A Logical Volume Manager is a program that controls volumes that exist over more than one drive. For example you could have two drives /dev/hda and /dev/hdb containing the root partition on /dev/hda1 and a logical volume called /dev/lv01 (like AIX logical volumes) which is really /dev/hda2 and /dev/hdb1 put together. This is great for a huge partition for databases but has the inherent problems of a drive failure that destroys the entire logical volume. The Logical Volume Manager just configures and controls these partitions. BTW: Win2000 has a logical volume manager but it does a slightly different job. Tom. ----- Original Message ----- From: Lenz Grimmer <grimmer@suse.de> To: SuSE Linux Mailing List <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Sent: Monday, August 30, 1999 4:12 PM Subject: [SLE] Petition to get LVM into the Linux kernel Hi, anyone who knows what a Logical Volume Manager is? Here is a petition going on to integrate it into the Linux Kernel: http://www.the-infinite.org/lvm_petition/index.phtml I would like to ask you to vote, if you find this a useful feature and you _really_ know, what itŽs good for and you feel a need for it. Thanks! LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Schanzaeckerstr. 10 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer 90443 Nuernberg, Germany -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/