From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Dilger Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Kernel-2.4.15pre6 Message-ID: <20011120113720.S1308@lynx.no> References: <20011117231937.D12510@auctionwatch.com> <20011119083610.B755@tykepenguin.com> <20011119111218.A25684@auctionwatch.com> <20011120161418.C807@tykepenguin.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011120161418.C807@tykepenguin.com>; from caulfield@sistina.com on Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 04:14:18PM +0000 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: Date: Tue Nov 20 12:36:01 2001 List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com 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/