diff --git a/utils/lvm2/Makefile b/utils/lvm2/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4aedf4f1f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/utils/lvm2/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,113 @@
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2009 Stefan Monnier
+#
+# This is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License v3+.
+# See /LICENSE for more information.
+
+include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
+
+PKG_NAME:=LVM2
+PKG_VERSION:=2.02.44
+PKG_RELEASE:=1
+
+PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_NAME).$(PKG_VERSION).tgz
+PKG_SOURCE_URL:=ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/lvm2/
+PKG_MD5SUM:=4ed7b99903a6fc5165b7b0b8def42486
+# 2.02.43 = fc34655706a2aa116b92328b24fad619
+# 2.02.44 = 4ed7b99903a6fc5165b7b0b8def42486
+
+# OpenWRT normally expects the tarball to expand into
+# $(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION), and this magic incantation seems to make it
+# understand that LVM2's tarball expands into $(PKG_NAME).$(PKG_VERSION).
+PKG_BUILD_DIR:=$(BUILD_DIR)/$(PKG_NAME).$(PKG_VERSION)
+
+include $(INCLUDE_DIR)/package.mk
+
+define Package/libdevmapper
+  SECTION:=libs
+  CATEGORY:=Libraries
+  SUBMENU:=disc
+  DEPENDS:=+kmod-dm
+  TITLE:=The Linux Kernel Device Mapper userspace library
+  URL:=http://sourceware.org/dm/
+endef
+
+define Package/libdevmapper/description
+  The Linux Kernel Device Mapper is the LVM (Linux Logical Volume Management)
+  Team\'s implementation of a minimalistic kernel-space driver that handles
+  volume management, while keeping knowledge of the underlying device layout
+  in user-space.  This makes it useful for not only LVM, but EVMS, software
+  raid, and other drivers that create "virtual" block devices.
+  .
+  This package contains the (user-space) shared library for accessing the
+  device-mapper; it allows usage of the device-mapper through a clean,
+  consistent interface (as opposed to through kernel ioctls).
+endef
+
+define Package/lvm2
+  SECTION:=utils
+  CATEGORY:=Utilities
+  SUBMENU:=disc
+  TITLE:=The Linux Logical Volume Manager
+  DEPENDS:=+libdevmapper +libreadline
+  URL:=http://sourceware.org/lvm2/
+endef
+
+define Package/lvm2/description
+  This is LVM2, the rewrite of The Linux Logical Volume Manager.  LVM
+  supports enterprise level volume management of disk and disk subsystems
+  by grouping arbitrary disks into volume groups. The total capacity of
+  volume groups can be allocated to logical volumes, which are accessed as
+  regular block devices.
+endef
+
+# I got problems building with readline, so I originally just disabled it.
+# I've since added patch 100-readline-link which fixes the problem instead.
+# CONFIGURE_ARGS += --disable-readline
+
+# Apparently we have problems when "read"ing using O_DIRECT, maybe because
+# of uClibc.  More specifically, with O_DIRECT lvm becomes erratic, showing
+# non-deterministic behavior: `lvs', `pvs' and friends can return anything
+# from empty lists, to completely correct result, as well as checksum errors,
+# complaints about missing volume groups, ... each run of the command can
+# return something different.  The "root" of the problem is (maybe among
+# other places) in the "_io" function in dev-io.c, where calls to the "read"
+# function often return garbage, although not always.  There's nothing
+# obviously wrong with the dev-io.c code, so the bug may just as well be in
+# uClibc or in the kernel (it appeared on the MIPS platform and could be
+# related to cache coherency issues).
+# Debian Lenny's lvm2 also disables O_DIRECT on "arm armeb hppa mips mipsel".
+CONFIGURE_ARGS += --disable-o_direct
+
+define Build/InstallDev
+       mkdir -p $(1)/usr/include
+       $(INSTALL_DATA) $(PKG_BUILD_DIR)/include/libdevmapper.h $(1)/usr/include/
+       mkdir -p $(1)/usr/lib
+       $(CP) $(PKG_BUILD_DIR)/libdm/ioctl/libdevmapper.{a,so} $(1)/usr/lib/
+       mkdir -p $(1)/usr/lib/pkgconfig
+       $(CP) $(PKG_BUILD_DIR)/libdm/libdevmapper.pc $(1)/usr/lib/pkgconfig/
+endef
+
+define Package/libdevmapper/install
+       $(INSTALL_DIR) $(1)/usr/lib
+       $(INSTALL_DATA) $(PKG_BUILD_DIR)/libdm/libdevmapper.so.* $(1)/usr/lib/
+endef
+
+# This rule only installs the `lvm' executable.  Debian also installs
+# a whole bunch of symlinks so that instead of `lvm <foo>' you can directly
+# run `<foo>'.
+define Package/lvm2/install
+       $(INSTALL_DIR) $(1)/sbin
+       $(INSTALL_BIN) $(PKG_BUILD_DIR)/tools/lvm $(1)/sbin/
+       $(INSTALL_DIR) $(1)/etc/lvm
+       $(INSTALL_DATA) $(PKG_BUILD_DIR)/doc/example.conf $(1)/etc/lvm/lvm.conf
+       $(INSTALL_DIR) $(1)/etc/init.d
+       $(INSTALL_BIN) ./files/lvm2.init $(1)/etc/init.d/lvm2
+endef
+
+define Package/lvm2/conffiles
+/etc/lvm/lvm.conf
+endef
+
+$(eval $(call BuildPackage,libdevmapper))
+$(eval $(call BuildPackage,lvm2))
diff --git a/utils/lvm2/files/lvm2.init b/utils/lvm2/files/lvm2.init
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3b542d023
--- /dev/null
+++ b/utils/lvm2/files/lvm2.init
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+#!/bin/sh /etc/rc.common
+# Copyright (C) 2009 Stefan Monnier
+START=15
+
+start () {
+   /sbin/lvm vgscan --ignorelockingfailure --mknodes || :
+   /sbin/lvm vgchange -aly --ignorelockingfailure || return 2
+}
+
+stop () {
+    /sbin/lvm vgchange -aln --ignorelockingfailure || return 2
+}
diff --git a/utils/lvm2/patches/100-readline-link.patch b/utils/lvm2/patches/100-readline-link.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..584baa506
--- /dev/null
+++ b/utils/lvm2/patches/100-readline-link.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+=== modified file 'LVM2.2.02.43/make.tmpl.in'
+--- LVM2.2.02.43/make.tmpl.in  2009-01-16 15:02:27 +0000
++++ LVM2.2.02.43/make.tmpl.in  2009-01-16 15:02:45 +0000
+@@ -84,11 +84,9 @@
+ endif
+
+ LDFLAGS += -L$(top_srcdir)/libdm -L$(top_srcdir)/lib
+-CLDFLAGS += -L$(top_srcdir)/libdm -L$(top_srcdir)/lib
+
+ ifeq ("@DMEVENTD@", "yes")
+   LDFLAGS += -L$(top_srcdir)/daemons/dmeventd
+-  CLDFLAGS += -L$(top_srcdir)/daemons/dmeventd
+ endif
+
+ ifeq ("@DM_COMPAT@", "yes")
+@@ -202,18 +200,18 @@
+ ifeq ("@LIB_SUFFIX@","so")
+ $(LIB_SHARED): $(OBJECTS) $(LDDEPS)
+       $(CC) -shared -Wl,-soname,$(notdir $@).$(LIB_VERSION) \
+-      $(CFLAGS) $(CLDFLAGS) $(OBJECTS) $(LIBS) -o $@
++      $(CFLAGS) $(CLDFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) $(OBJECTS) $(LIBS) -o $@
+ endif
+
+ ifeq ("@LIB_SUFFIX@","dylib")
+ $(LIB_SHARED): $(OBJECTS) $(LDDEPS)
+       $(CC) -dynamiclib -dylib_current_version,$(LIB_VERSION) \
+-      $(CFLAGS) $(CLDFLAGS) $(OBJECTS) $(LIBS) -o $@
++      $(CFLAGS) $(CLDFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) $(OBJECTS) $(LIBS) -o $@
+ endif
+
+ %.so: %.a
+       $(CC) -shared -Wl,-soname,$(notdir $@).$(LIB_VERSION) \
+-      $(CFLAGS) $(CLDFLAGS) $(LIBS) -o $@ \
++      $(CFLAGS) $(CLDFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) $(LIBS) -o $@ \
+       @CLDWHOLEARCHIVE@ $< @CLDNOWHOLEARCHIVE@
+
+ $(LIB_STATIC): $(OBJECTS)
+