From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolabs.com>
To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Kernel-2.4.15pre6
Date: Tue Nov 20 12:36:01 2001 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011120113720.S1308@lynx.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011120161418.C807@tykepenguin.com>; from caulfield@sistina.com on Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 04:14:18PM +0000
On Nov 20, 2001 16:14 +0000, Patrick Caulfield wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 11:12:18AM -0800, Petro wrote:
> > > If you want to do snapshots of reiserfs (and, I think, ext3) then
> > > you will still need the VFS lock patch yes.
> >
> > Is there any indication that this patch will make it in to the
> > official kernel at some point?
>
> I don't know is the honest answer. It's Chris Mason's patch, we just
> distribute it for convenience of LVM users, I don't know if (or how many
> times!) he's tried to submit it for inclusion.
A couple of times, I think. It may be that it didn't go in the last time
because of the "block-device-in-pagecache" fallout, and VM changes keeping
Linus busy. I think Marcello will get a _huge_ backlog of patches sent at
him. Whether this will mean it is easier or harder to get changes in, I
don't know (he may want to stay in "maintenance mode" only, and push all
changes to 2.5 kernels, but hopefully not for well tested changes like this).
Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-18 1:18 [linux-lvm] Kernel-2.4.15pre6 Petro
2001-11-19 2:34 ` Patrick Caulfield
2001-11-19 13:10 ` Petro
2001-11-20 10:13 ` Patrick Caulfield
2001-11-20 12:36 ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
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