From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (ext-mx12.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.110.17]) by int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q1GDP562023525 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 08:25:05 -0500 Received: from qmta06.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta06.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.56]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q1GDP4Nd017985 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 08:25:04 -0500 Message-ID: <4F3D03AE.2050502@mohawksoft.com> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 08:25:02 -0500 From: Mark Woodward MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [linux-lvm] Snapshots Reply-To: LVM general discussion and development List-Id: LVM general discussion and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-lvm@redhat.com I have been looking into LVM2 for a while now and while I think it is useful for a range of applications, its seems pretty limited in overall scope. Is there any active development happening? Most of the code seems like bug-fixes or minor tweaks. Is the snapshot system being improved? Specifically, snapshots of snapshots? thin provisioned snapshots or auto-expand (i.e. snapshots don't run out of space). If you look at technologies like ZFS snapshots are far better supported, but ZFS will probably never be real under Linux, and it really is far more than is really needed. So, I guess my questions are these: Is LVM in maintenance mode or is there active development? If it is being actively developed, is there a road map and is there a group or site specifically dedicated to the development?