README

This tree contains the LVM2 and device-mapper tools and libraries.

For more information about LVM2 read the changelog in the WHATS_NEW file.
Installation instructions are in INSTALL.

There is no warranty - see COPYING and COPYING.LIB.

Tarballs are available from:
  ftp://sourceware.org/pub/lvm2/
  https://github.com/lvmteam/lvm2/releases

The source code is stored in git:
  https://gitlab.com/lvmteam/lvm2
Clone:
  git clone git@gitlab.com:lvmteam/lvm2.git
Anonymous access:
  git clone https://gitlab.com/lvmteam/lvm2.git
Mirrored to:
* https://github.com/lvmteam/lvm2
  git clone https://github.com/lvmteam/lvm2.git
  git clone git@github.com:lvmteam/lvm2.git
* https://sourceware.org/git/?p=lvm2.git
  git clone https://sourceware.org/git/lvm2.git
  git clone git://sourceware.org/git/lvm2.git

Mailing list for general discussion related to LVM2:
  linux-lvm@lists.linux.dev
  Subscribe via email to: linux-lvm+subscribe@lists.linux.dev
  Archive https://lore.kernel.org/linux-lvm/
  Older archive https://listman.redhat.com/archives/linux-lvm/

Mailing lists for LVM2 development, patches and commits:
  lvm-devel@lists.linux.dev
  Subscribe via email to: lvm-devel+subscribe@lists.linux.dev
  Archive https://lore.kernel.org/lvm-devel/
  Older archive https://listman.redhat.com/archives/lvm-devel/

  lvm2-commits@lists.fedorahosted.org (Read-only archive of commits)
  Subscribe from https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/lvm2-commits

Mailing list for device-mapper development, including kernel patches
and multipath-tools:
  dm-devel@redhat.com
  Subscribe from https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel

Website:
  https://sourceware.org/lvm2/

Report upstream bugs at:
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=LVM%20and%20device-mapper
or open issues at:
  https://gitlab.com/groups/lvmteam/-/issues
  https://github.com/lvmteam/lvm2/issues

The source code repository used until 7th June 2012 is accessible using CVS:

  cvs -d :pserver:cvs@sourceware.org:/cvs/lvm2 login cvs
  cvs -d :pserver:cvs@sourceware.org:/cvs/lvm2 checkout LVM2

The password is cvs.