LVM2 Beta 4 available from ftp.sistina.com

Summary of the main changes in Beta 4
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New format of LVM metadata now ready for testing.
Designed to improve efficiency and robustness and to offer more options for recovery in the event of problems.

New command line tool options to support the new metadata format.
vgconvert to change a volume group from one format to another. pvremove to remove a physical volume from LVM's management.

New configuration file options (see doc/example.conf).

Updated manual pages explaining the new features.

Improvements to the text archive file format to prepare for future extensions. (N.B. Partially incompatible with previous betas.)

Framework to support additional metadata formats in shared libraries.

See the README, WHATS_NEW and INSTALL files for further information.

Tarballs are available from:
ftp://ftp.sistina.com/pub/LVM2/tools/LVM2.1.95.11.tgz
The latest stable version of device-mapper is:
ftp://ftp.sistina.com/pub/LVM2/device-mapper/device-mapper.0.96.06.tgz

To access the CVS tree use:
cvs -d :pserver:[email protected]:/data/cvs login
CVS password: cvs1
cvs -d :pserver:[email protected]:/data/cvs checkout LVM2

Please use the LVM development mailing list to discuss these and possible future changes:
[email protected]
http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/lvm-devel

Alasdair

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