Heinz Mauelshagen

Logical Volume Management is one of the key features in the area of Enterprise Computing where uptime is a cost sensible issue, because it addresses the need of online storage reconfigurations without system interruption. The talk addresses the current status of the Linux Logical Volume Manager and its future strands including Cluster enhancements which will offer mutual access capabilities to storage from the nodes of a cluster.

Linux LVM has been developed by Heinz Mauelshagen, an Electrical Engineer from Germany who gained experience with comercial LVMs while working as a long term employee of Deutsche Telekom in Systems Management. Facing the lack of such feature in Linux, he started the LVM implementation in February 1997 and released version 0.1 in mid 1997.
Since May 2000 he is employed by Sistina Software Inc., a Minneapolis based Storage Management company enabling him to work full time as a team lead on further Linux LVM development which led to the LVM 1.0 release in August 2001.

Recently Heinz Mauelshagen got honored by the OSDL who created the 'OSDL Enterprise Achivement Award' for the first time this year which he received at the Linux World+Expo in San Francisco. The price is ment for individuals who contributed Open Source to the Enterprise and will be presented to other contributors anually.