What is new in LVM - 1.0.7                                      28/02/2003

see CHANGELOG for bug fixes

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What is new in LVM - 1.0.6                                      25/10/2002

see CHANGELOG for bug fixes

 o Default PE size for vgcreate is now 32MB

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What is new in LVM - 1.0.5                                      15/07/2002

No new features - see the CHANGELOG for bug fixes

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What is new in LVM - 1.0.4                                      02/05/2002

 o support for NBD

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What is new in LVM - 1.0.3                                      19/02/2002

 o pvcreate: 
   - option '-s'
       Overwrite the device size.  See CHANGELOG for more details.

 o pvmove: 
   - option '-i'
       ignore read errors on flaky or otherwise inaccessible devices

   - Support for moves in inactive volumes

 o vgcfgrestore
   - option '-b'
       Use to give a backup history number together with 
       '-n VolumeGroupName'

   - option '-i'
       Ignore the size of the device to be restored to

 o vgscan
   - option '-f'
       Force changes of volume group and device numbers
   
   - option '-r'
       Remove all snapshots in all volume groups or in a specific
       volume group.  See CHANGELOG for more details.

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What is new in LVM - 1.0.2                                      23/01/2002

 o Persistent LV device minors
 o Support loop devices
 o ataraid device support

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What is new in LVM - 1.0.1                                      26/11/2001

No new features, but see the CHANGELOG for bug fixes

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What is new in LVM - 1.0.1-rc4					03/10/2001

Bugfix:
	- There was a bad checkin just prior to the release tag that
	  messed up compilation of the kernel driver.  It is fixed now.

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What is new in LVM - 1.0.1-rc3					01/10/2001

Feature freeze:
	- see CHANGELOG

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What is new in LVM - 1.0.1-rc2					14/08/2001

If you are upgrading from LVM 0.9.1 beta7 or earlier:
****   PLEASE READ README.1st  ****

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What is new in LVM - 0.9.1_beta8				05/04/2001

On disk data format changed (slightly), upgrade tool needs to be run.  

****   PLEASE READ README.1st  ****

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What is new in LVM - 0.9.1_beta6				06/03/2001

Feature freeze:
	- several bugs fixed (see CHANGELOG)

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What was new in LVM - 0.9.1_beta5                               20/02/2001

Feature freeze:
        - several bugs fixed (see CHANGELOG)


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What was new in LVM - 0.9.1_beta4				09/02/2001

Feature freeze:
	- several bugs fixed (see CHANGELOG)

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What was new in LVM - 0.9.1_beta3				25/01/2001

Features:
	- several bugs fixed (see CHANGELOG)

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What was new in LVM - 0.9.1_beta2				18/01/2001

Features:
	- several bugs fixed (see CHANGELOG)


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What was new in LVM - 0.9.1_beta1         	 		12/01/2001

Support for:
	- Linux 2.2.18 and Linux 2.4.0

Features:
	- several bugs fixed (see CHANGELOG)


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What was new in LVM - 0.9                                       13/11/2000

Support for:
	- Linux 2.2.17 and Linux 2.4.0-test10
          (including previous 2.4.0 test kernels)

Features:
	- Persistent snapshot logical volumes

	- Resizable snapshot logical volumes

	- API to request the use rate of a snapshot logical volume

	- Integration with VFS to consistently mount ReiserFS filesystems
	  on snapshots (VFS patch necessary)

	- Physical Volume and Volume Group UUID support

	- default Volume Group in environment variable LVM_VG_NAME
	  for lv*(8) commands

	- /proc/lvm/ directory hierarchy easing to parse VGDA information

	- basic devfs support

	- autoconf based


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What was new in LVM - 0.8final					10/07/2000

Support for:
   - Linux up to 2.3.47
     (request queue handler and block device registration changes)

   - Linux 2.2.14 (bigmem + rawio patches necessary!)

Features:
   - support for multiple snapshot logical volumes per original
     logical volume to for eg. enable consistent online backups
     or recovery in filesystems and database systems.

   - all errors now in plain text rather than numeric

   - variable VGDA backup history depth in /etc/lvmconf supported
     by environment variable LVM_VG_MAX_BACKUPS (see vgcreate(8) and others)

   - automatic backup can be suppressed by environment variable
     LVM_AUTOBACKUP (see vgcreate(8) and others) during bulk creates.
     (the possibility to use option "-A n" with all
      changing commands still exists)

   - enhanced debug tracing (Option -d of the tools) to show call depth

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What was new in LVM - 0.8					02/10/1999

Support for:
   - Linux up to 2.3.15

Features:
   - support for long command line options
   - mutiple exit states for use in shell script etc.


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What was new in LVM - 0.7					12/07/1999

Support for:
   - Linux up to 2.3.9

Features:
   - loop devices can be used as physical volumes for
     testing or evaluation purposes

   - correction of block device major in case of existing VGs with
     pre official one

   - support to create an initial ramdisk to have the root filesystem
     in a logical volume

   - support for volume group and logical volume names containing '.'

   - /proc/partitions support regardless of Linux version

   - larger stripe sizes up to 512k



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What was new in LVM - 0.6					26/02/1999

Support for:
   - Linux 2.2.2

Features:
   - the strict limit of 8 volume groups with up to 31 logical
     volumes each is gone: you can have 1 volume group with up to
     256 logical volumes of 99 volume groups with 2 or 3 logical volumes each
     or every mixture in between as well.
     See vgchange(8).

   - sizes can have units now; for eg. you are able to enter
     the logical volume size in megabytes, gigabytes and terabytes 8*)

   - read ahead sectors now can be choosed on a per logical
     volume base with lvcreate(8)/lvchange(8);
     no global setting with lvmchange(8) any longer

   - new options s and n for pvscan(8)

   - /proc/partitions fully supported with kernel 2.2.1 now



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What was new in LVM - 0.5alpha                                  30/01/1999

Support for:

   - glib2 (libc6)
   - Linux 2.2.x, 2.0.36
   - full devfs name space
     (see <http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/kernel-patches.html>)
   - make [menu|x]config
   - official device major numbers
   - egcs-1.1.1


Features:

   - WARNING: data layer implemented to handle vgexport/vgimport between
     different architectures (for eg. Intel/Alpha).

     Should there be any != Intel LVM installations out there you have
     to backup your LVs, delete them and the VGs and reconfigure them after
     upgrading to this LVM version

     _or_

     you have to ask me for a conversion tool 8*)))

   - i/o statistics by lvmsadc(8) and lvmsar(8) (have to be enhanced ;*) )

   - e2fsadm(8) to resize LVs and contained unmonuted ;*( ext2 filsystems using
     Ted Tso's resize2fs (ask <support@powerquest.com> as a Partition Magic
     license owner)

   - now pvmove(8) can handle lists of PEs/LEs to be moved

   - tools return more exit states then 0 and 1; see corresponding tool manual


See CHANGELOG for details.
