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Subject: Re: dm-cache questions
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 18:08:05 -0800
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> From: Alasdair G Kergon [mailto:agk@redhat.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2013 5:04 PM
>
> We send them to mainline and stable then it is up to the distributions
> concerned to choose to apply them.

I meant more whether they'd get applied to the LTS kernel upstream; eg, show
up in a minor patch to 3.10 from kernel.org. 
 
> Various aspects of the design are being debated.  Expect to see progress
> to start to appear on lvm-devel over the next few weeks.  We're
> hopeful we'll have something that's beginning to be useful in January.

Cool, thanks for the info. I'll start lurking on that list and see what
happens :).