README

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

This is development branch, for stable 2.02 release see 2018-06-01-stable
branch.

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/
  ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/lvm2/
  https://github.com/lvmteam/lvm2/releases

The source code is stored in git:
  https://sourceware.org/git/?p=lvm2.git
  git clone git://sourceware.org/git/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

Mailing list for general discussion related to LVM2:
  linux-lvm@redhat.com
  Subscribe from https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm

Mailing lists for LVM2 development, patches and commits:
  lvm-devel@redhat.com
  Subscribe from https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/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://github.com/lvmteam/lvm2/issues

The source code repository used until 7th June 2012 is accessible here:
  http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/LVM2/?cvsroot=lvm2.