Re: Did you try devlabel

[David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>]

Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 03:52:24PM -0500, Gary_Lerhaupt@Dell.com wrote:
> 
>>So, in the meantime for us 2.4 folks, would it not be best to add the
>>patches as I have them and then work it differently for the 2.5
>>implementation?
> 
> 
> That's David's call, not mine :)
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg (pass the buck) k-h

Gee thanks Greg... ;)


The functionality is needed, and will be needed even more in the
future.  So I'm keen on having it in some form.

The hard question is how, and my preferred answer would be to
focus all user mode tools/training/docs on what'll be the 2.5
solution ("disk" hotplug), with the 2.4 based solution mostly
a "workalike" or even backport.  Certainly "evolve together"
so the end-user (and sysadmin) experience isn't of two rather
divergent solutions, but just one (that likely works better on
2.5 systems but behaves also on 2.4).

Sounds to me like a 2.5ish start isn't that far away, so
a short delay seems reasonable to me.  So far as I can tell,
"devlabel" is in that interesting stage where it's not got
that many users (yet) and so it's easy to change based
on experience/feedback ... and we really ought to seek that
feedback and use it to improve both 2.4 and 2.5 based systems.

So I'll install devlabel and run it myself for a while.  And
I encourage other folk to do so, and submit feedback to this
list over the next month or so.  At which point I think it'll
be more practical to decide in detail what the next steps are.

Gary, can you work with that approach?  And in any case,
could you provide a short email describing how devlabel
would work on different kinds of Linux systems?  I have
in mind a range, including desktop, small server, larger
servers, and so on.  Aren't there other volume management
tools a "devlabel" would need to play with?

- Dave







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