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[Acronym] for __L__ogical __V__olume __M__anagement.
-A cool
technology that lets you build
multi disc arrays and put
partitions across them however you like
. A new feature in the [Linux] [Kernel] 2.4.
+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
.
See the excellent HowTo at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/.
Related to [RAID].
See [LVMNotes] for some hints.
