From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 22:20:30 +0200 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [lvm-devel] Re: [linux-lvm] Re: *** ANNOUNCEMENT *** LVM 1.0 available at www.sistina.com Message-ID: <20010815222030.A23962@caldera.de> References: <20010815175659.A29749@sistina.com> <20010815182548.U3941@gum01m.etpnet.phys.tue.nl> <20010815185005.A32239@sistina.com> <20010815190428.A11146@athlon.random> <20010815210622.A1221@btconnect.com> <20010815221623.C11146@athlon.random> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010815221623.C11146@athlon.random>; from andrea@suse.de on Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 10:16:23PM +0200 Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lvm-devel@sistina.com Cc: Joe Thornber , Kurt Garloff , linux-lvm@sistina.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 10:16:23PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > You can put the algorithm used by beta7 in a separate program and ask > this program where the pe start. Since the beta7 tools knows where the > pe_start (the proof is that I can use lvm in my machines), also this new > program will know where the pe_start. In principle yes, but beta7 is the wrong target, the one that needs to be converted easily is the old (=0.9) format, people using betas should really know what they are doing while a seamless upgrade from the latest release version is a must. Christoph -- Whip me. Beat me. Make me maintain AIX.