Logical Volume Management - overview
Operating Systems Accomplishment | 1987 - 1990
IBM researcher: Marc Auslander
Where the work was done: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
What we accomplished: Adapted from Wikipedia: "Logical volume management (LVM) provides a method of allocating space on mass-storage devices that is more flexible than conventional partitioning schemes. In particular, a volume manager can concatenate, stripe together or otherwise combine partitions (or block devices in general) into larger virtual ones that administrators can resize or move, potentially without interrupting system use."
Related links: U.S. Patent 5,129,088, "Data processing method to create virtual disks from non-contiguous groups of logically contiguous addressable blocks of direct access storage device."
Image credit: Courtesy of Marc Auslander, pictured
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