Posted on by Justin Sherrill
Oh look, it’s LVM2!

Alex Hornung has imported LVM2 from NetBSD, along with cryptsetup and dm.  (Not dm(8), but devicemapper)  LVM(8) stands for Logical Volume Management, and it makes storage management much easier; you may have encountered it on NetBSD or Linux.  Those additional tools make it possible to encrypt volumes.  Alex has published details on how to use it.

Also: Alex’s not-really-related-but-I -mistakenly-linked-to-it udev/libdevattr work.

3 Replies to “Oh look, it’s LVM2!”

  2. Oh and when the website sync with these news?
    The latest is still “Messylaneous for 2010/03/08”

  3. Justin,

    the second link (“how it works”) links to the udev/libdevattr stuff which is actually unrelated to dm/LVM. That’s an effort to have something along the lines of linux’ libudev.

    The only implementation notes about dm/lvm/cryptsetup are hidden in the first mail (your “how to use it” link).

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