*** ANNOUNCEMENT *** LVM 0.9.1 Beta 6 available at www.sistina.com

Hi all,

a tarball of the Linux Logical Volume Manager 0.9.1 Beta 6 is available now at

<http://www.sistina.com/>

for download (Follow the "LVM 0.9.1-Beta6" link).

This release fixes several bugs.
See the CHANGELOG file contained in the tarball for further information.

The LVM 0.9.1 Beta 6 release delay was mainly caused by some snapshot LV bugs. We would appreciate snapshot LV test feedback on Linus 2.2 and 2.4.

**IMPORTANT** IOP version has moved back to 10, make sure tools and kernel driver are both upgraded to beta6, if you are running beta5.

Please help us to stabilize for LVM 1.0 ASAP and provide your test results, bug fixes and advice.

Feed back related information to <[email protected]>.

Thanks a lot for your support of LVM.

Regards,
Heinz    -- The LVM Guy --

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Heinz Mauelshagen                                 Sistina Software Inc.
Senior Consultant/Developer                       Am Sonnenhang 11
                                                  56242 Marienrachdorf
                                                  Germany
[email protected]                           +49 2626 141200
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Despite the CHANGELOG is in the tarball, could you please post its content to this list.

I think a lot of people who are watching this list like me, don't want to test every beta release but would like to know what's going on.

Regards
Friedrich Lobenstock

Sure, I will.

Here it is:

<BEGIN Logical Volume Manager Changelog>

Changelog for 0.9.1_beta5 to 0.9.1_beta6
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LVM
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o **IMPORTANT** IOP version has moved back to 10, make sure tools and kernel driver are both upgraded to beta6, if you are running beta5.

Driver
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o Fixes to get LVM working on UltraSPARC boxes. Note this requires an additional kernel patch.

o Fixed bug in lvm_do_lvcreate() in order to avoid invalid accesses to user space addresses in vg->lv[]

o factored lvm_get_snapshot_use_rate out of blk_ioctl

o introduced the P_DEV macro and changed some internal functions to be static

o Added VG_CREATE_OLD ioctl for IOP 10 compatibility

o Reverted IOP back to 10

o lvextend/reduce was stamping over the snapshot semaphore causing an oops. This fixes the reiserfs + lvextend problem reported on the mailing list

o status that a snapshot was dropped is now stored on disk in order to be restored correctly by vgchange

o new lvm-release.h include reflecting the version

o lvm locking is now fixed

o bmap IOCTL changes for LILO support

Tools
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o pvdata -U now works

o lvdisplay on an original LV no lists the active/inactive status per snapshot

o lvscan now shows the target for a snapshot LV

o vgchange now informs the administrator about dropped snapshots and restores them correctly in order to be able to lvremove them

Library
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o -fPIC flag now used when building shared libs.

Install
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<END Logical Volume Manager Changelog>

Regards,
Heinz    -- The LVM Guy --

*** Software bugs are stupid.
    Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them ***

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Heinz Mauelshagen                                 Sistina Software Inc.
Senior Consultant/Developer                       Am Sonnenhang 11
                                                  56242 Marienrachdorf
                                                  Germany
[email protected]                           +49 2626 141200
                                                       FAX 924446
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There is a CHANGELOG on the ftp site as well:
ftp://ftp.sistina.com/pub/LVM/0.9.1_beta/CHANGELOG

This is updated for every release.

Regards,

AJ Lewis
Sistina Software Inc.                  Voice:  612-379-3951
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Minneapolis, MN 55414                  E-Mail: [email protected]
http://www.sistina.com

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Using devfs, I still get `part1' rather than ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 With multiple disks, this is somewhat unhelpful.

[[Also, it's a shame that there are so many spaces, making lines > 80 chars]]

[ Is there a version for easy parsing by perl scripts ? ]

worsdell:~: cat /proc/lvm/global
LVM driver version 0.9.1_beta6 (12/03/2001)

Total: 1 VG 2 PVs 3 LVs (3 LVs open 3 times)

Global: 7275 bytes malloced IOP version: 10 0:03:02 active

VG: vg01 [2 PV, 3 LV/3 open] PE Size: 4096 KB
Usage [KB/PE]: 1593344 /389 total 516096 /126 used 1077248 /263 free
PVs: [AA] part1 1044480 /255 516096 /126 528384
/129

       [AA] part6                   548864 /134            0 /0         548864 
/134
    LVs: [AWDL  ] tmp                         106496 /26       1x open
         [AWDL  ] repl                        307200 /75       1x open
         [AWDL  ] scratch                     102400 /25       1x open

worsdell:~:

use m{blah}sg to grab the thing as a single string and grab the portions you want, e.g.,

	my @whatever = $foo = /whatever/gs;

allows whatever to contain '.' that will match newlines.

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