This directory contains the version 0.3 ALPHA release of           05/26/1998
Heinz Mauelshagen's LVM (Logical Volume Manager) for Linux
developed and tested with kernel 2.0.31, 2.1.98, 2.1.101 and 2.1.102.


It includes all of the support for handling read/write operations on
physical volumes (hard disks, RAID-Systems, magneto optical, etc. and
even multiple devices (MD), see mdadd(8) etc.), creating volume groups
from one or more physical volumes and creating one or more logical volumes
in volume groups.

LVM is free software.
See the file COPYING for copying permission.


See LVM-HOWTO for further information.

The file INSTALL contains a copy of the
installation information as plain ASCII.


Installing this package will create various files in /sbin, /usr/man/man8
and a module in /lib/modules/`uname -r`/block.

Currently only the loadable module is tested
(the driver can optionaly be generated).


BE CAREFULL WITH ALPHA CODE.
THIS CAN DESTROY YOUR DATA!!!


Please send information of the following

class                        to
-----------------            -------------------------------------------
bug reports                  <linux.LVM.bug@ez-darmstadt.telekom.de>

patches                      <linux.LVM.patch@ez-darmstadt.telekom.de>

enhancement ideas            <linux.LVM.enhancement@ez-darmstadt.telekom.de>

other information            <linux.LVM@ez-darmstadt.telekom.de>

Please read the FAQ first and remember to tell me about your hardware/software
configuration and the steps you made (stdout,stderr with tool option -d)
leading to your problem ...


Thank you :-)
Heinz Mauelshagen

