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Original author(s) | Heinz Mauelshagen[1] |
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Stable release | 2.03.21[2] ![]() |
Repository | sourceware |
Written in | C |
Operating system | Linux, NetBSD |
License | GPLv2 |
Website | sourceware |
In Linux, Logical Volume Manager (LVM) is a device mapper framework that provides logical volume management for the Linux kernel. Most modern Linux distributions are LVM-aware to the point of being able to have their root file systems on a logical volume.[3][4][5]
Heinz Mauelshagen wrote the original LVM code in 1998, when he was working at Sistina Software, taking its primary design guidelines from the HP-UX's volume manager.[1]