Saturday, May 9, 2009

Linux LVM

Linux Logical Volume Manager
By N Gopu

Introduction
LVM gives more flexible filesystem control to linux os. It removes barriers on physical hard drives sizes. LVM provides capable of Software mirroring and helps on setting HA services using linux environment.
In previous older linux distributions, we had to setup and compile the kernel to support LVM. Nowadays, it comes as default. So, we have to no additional steps on kernel part.

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