From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 22 May 2002 08:52:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 22 May 2002 08:52:05 -0400 Received: from imailg1.svr.pol.co.uk ([195.92.195.179]:52802 "EHLO imailg1.svr.pol.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 22 May 2002 08:52:04 -0400 Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 13:51:28 +0100 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-lvm@sistina.com, lvm-devel@sistina.com Subject: [Announce] device-mapper beta3 (fast snapshots) Message-ID: <20020522125128.GA2009@fib011235813.fsnet.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i From: Joe Thornber Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Beta3 of device-mapper is now available at: ftp://ftp.sistina.com/pub/LVM2/device-mapper/device-mapper-beta3.0.tgz The accompanying LVM2 toolset: ftp://ftp.sistina.com/pub/LVM2/tools/LVM2.0-beta3.0.tgz The main addition for this release is high performance persistent snapshots, see http://people.sistina.com/~thornber/snap_performance.html for a comparison with LVM1 and EVMS. Please be warned that snapshots will deadlock under load on 2.4.18 kernels due to a bug in the VM syste, 2.4.19-pre8 works fine. pvmove is now the only major feature that LVM2 lacks compared with LVM1. - The LVM2 team (Patrick Caulfield, Alasdair Kergon, Joe Thornber)