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Newer page: version 3 Last edited on Friday, November 12, 2004 8:17:57 am by AristotlePagaltzis Revert
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-[Acronym] for __L__ogical __V__olume __M__anagement. 
+An [Acronym] for __L__ogical __V__olume __M__anagement. 
  
-A storage management technology/approach that lets administartors abstract the logical filesystem away from the underlying hardware to allow dynamic repartitioning , multi disc arrays, partitions across multiple drives (or systems) and similar tricks. A new feature in the [Linux] [Kernel] 2.4 and rewritten as LVM2 for the 2.6 kernel. [RedHat] is pushing LVM because these features are considered important by their target audiance. [FedoraCore ] 3 supports [LVM] 2 partitions in the default install
+A storage management system that allows viewing multiple disparate block devices as a single logical volume, thus allowing administrators to allocate space to FileSystem~s without regard for the underlying hardware on which it is actually stored , and with the ability to reallocate the space available on their storage devices to different [Partition ]s on the fly as they see fit. The logical volume can stretch across different physical devices
  
-See the excellent HowTo at http://tldp .org/HOWTO/ LVM-HOWTO/
+[LVM] was first introduced in the 2 .4 series [Linux] [Kernel] and rewritten as [ LVM] 2 for the 2.6 series. It is considered a critical feature for enterprise level computing, so RedHat are pushing it aggressively -- the default FedoraCore 3 install includes support for [LVM] 2
  
-Related to [RAID ].  
-  
-See [LVMNotes ] for some hints
+See also:  
+* [LVMNotes ]  
+* [RAID ]  
+* The [LVM HOWTO | http://tldp .org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/]