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-[Acronym] for __L__ogical __V__olume __M__anagement.
+An
[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 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/]
