								LVM 0.9.1_beta2
Whats is new in LVM 0.9.1_beta2					18/01/2001

Features:
	- several bugs fixed (see CHANGELOG)


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Whats is new in LVM 0.9.1_beta1         	 		12/01/2001

Support for:
	- Linux 2.2.18 and Linux 2.4.0

Features:
	- several bugs fixed (see CHANGELOG)


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What was new in LVM 0.9                                         13/11/2000

Support for:
	- Linux 2.2.17 and Linux 2.4.0-test10
          (including previous 2.4.0 test kernels)

Features:
	- Persistent snapshot logical volumes

	- Resizable snapshot logical volumes

	- API to request the use rate of a snapshot logical volume

	- Integration with VFS to consistently mount ReiserFS filesystems
	  on snapshots (VFS patch necessary)

	- Physical Volume and Volume Group UUID support

	- default Volume Group in environment variable LVM_VG_NAME
	  for lv*(8) commands

	- /proc/lvm/ directory hierarchy easing to parse VGDA information

	- basic devfs support

	- autoconf based


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What was new in LVM 0.8final					10/07/2000

Support for:
   - Linux up to 2.3.47
     (request queue handler and block device registration changes)

   - Linux 2.2.14 (bigmem + rawio patches necessary!)

Features:
   - support for multiple snapshot logical volumes per original
     logical volume to for eg. enable consistent online backups
     or recovery in filesystems and database systems.

   - all errors now in plain text rather than numeric

   - variable VGDA backup history depth in /etc/lvmconf supported
     by environment variable LVM_VG_MAX_BACKUPS (see vgcreate(8) and others)

   - automatic backup can be suppressed by environment variable
     LVM_AUTOBACKUP (see vgcreate(8) and others) during bulk creates.
     (the possibility to use option "-A n" with all
      changing commands still exists)

   - enhanced debug tracing (Option -d of the tools) to show call depth

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What was new in LVM 0.8						02/10/1999

Support for:
   - Linux up to 2.3.15

Features:
   - support for long command line options
   - mutiple exit states for use in shell script etc.


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What was new in LVM 0.7						12/07/1999

Support for:
   - Linux up to 2.3.9

Features:
   - loop devices can be used as physical volumes for
     testing or evaluation purposes

   - correction of block device major in case of existing VGs with
     pre official one

   - support to create an initial ramdisk to have the root filesystem
     in a logical volume

   - support for volume group and logical volume names containing '.'

   - /proc/partitions support regardless of Linux version

   - larger stripe sizes up to 512k



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What was new in LVM 0.6						26/02/1999

Support for:
   - Linux 2.2.2

Features:
   - the strict limit of 8 volume groups with up to 31 logical
     volumes each is gone: you can have 1 volume group with up to
     256 logical volumes of 99 volume groups with 2 or 3 logical volumes each
     or every mixture in between as well.
     See vgchange(8).

   - sizes can have units now; for eg. you are able to enter
     the logical volume size in megabytes, gigabytes and terabytes 8*)

   - read ahead sectors now can be choosed on a per logical
     volume base with lvcreate(8)/lvchange(8);
     no global setting with lvmchange(8) any longer

   - new options s and n for pvscan(8)

   - /proc/partitions fully supported with kernel 2.2.1 now



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What was new in LVM 0.5alpha                                    30/01/1999

Support for:

   - glib2 (libc6)
   - Linux 2.2.x, 2.0.36
   - full devfs name space
     (see <http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/kernel-patches.html>)
   - make [menu|x]config
   - official device major numbers
   - egcs-1.1.1


Features:

   - WARNING: data layer implemented to handle vgexport/vgimport between
     different architectures (for eg. Intel/Alpha).

     Should there be any != Intel LVM installations out there you have
     to backup your LVs, delete them and the VGs and reconfigure them after
     upgrading to this LVM version

     _or_

     you have to ask me for a conversion tool 8*)))

   - i/o statistics by lvmsadc(8) and lvmsar(8) (have to be enhanced ;*) )

   - e2fsadm(8) to resize LVs and contained unmonuted ;*( ext2 filsystems using
     Ted Tso's resize2fs (ask <support@powerquest.com> as a Partition Magic
     license owner)

   - now pvmove(8) can handle lists of PEs/LEs to be moved

   - tools return more exit states then 0 and 1; see corresponding tool manual


See CHANGELOG for details.
