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An [Acronym] for __L__ogical __V__olume __M__anagement.

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.

[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.

See also:
* [LVMNotes]
* [RAID]
* The [LVM HOWTO | http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/]
* [Debian Grimoire: LVM2|http://deb.riseup.net/storage/lvm2/]

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Last edited on Friday, December 23, 2005 9:22:31 am by CraigBox

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