[linux-lvm] nagging about the LVM usage survey

[linux-lvm] nagging about the LVM usage survey

[Matthew O'Keefe]

</begin nagging>

Hi,
we've got a LVM Usage Survey up on the web at

http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/lvm_eval.html

Nearly 2568 downloads of LVM  have taken
place since , but only about 12 LVM users have actually filled out
this survey.  So we don't really know what the
other 2556 potential users are doing with LVM :-(       

If more LVM users and developers fill these out and tell        
us what they are doing with LVM, and what their immediate needs are,
we can better understand where to go in the future.
We are now starting to define the feature set 
for LVM 5.0.  So please  tell us what you are doing with 
LVM, and what you want to see
in future releases.  Filling out this survey helps us
get more resources to continue development of this free
software.

If you have privacy concerns,  then make up your name address and
email.  Also, we won't spam people with stupid sales or marketing
pitches.

Thanks
Matt O'Keefe

</end nagging>

Re: [linux-lvm] nagging about the LVM usage survey

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 08:31:14AM -0600, Matthew O'Keefe wrote:
> If more LVM users and developers fill these out and tell        
> us what they are doing with LVM, and what their immediate needs are,
> we can better understand where to go in the future.
> We are now starting to define the feature set 
> for LVM 5.0.

Why 5.0?

	Christoph

-- 
Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.

Re: [linux-lvm] nagging about the LVM usage survey

[Michael J. Declerck]

I believe that Matt meant LVM 1.0 and GFS 5.0

hch@ns.caldera.de said:
> Why 5.0? 


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Re: [linux-lvm] nagging about the LVM usage survey

[Heinz J. Mauelshagen]

On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 07:14:15AM -0800, Michael J. Declerck wrote:
> I believe that Matt meant LVM 1.0 and GFS 5.0

Yes, I am sure.

> 
> hch@ns.caldera.de said:
> > Why 5.0? 
> 
> 
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> Michael Declerck, declerck@sistina.com   +1.510.823.7991
> 
> 
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Regards,
Heinz    -- The LVM Guy --

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Heinz Mauelshagen                                 Sistina Software Inc.
Senior Consultant/Developer                       Am Sonnenhang 11
                                                  56242 Marienrachdorf
                                                  Germany
Mauelshagen@Sistina.com                           +49 2626 141200
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Re: [linux-lvm] nagging about the LVM usage survey

[Michael E Brown]

On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 08:31:14AM -0600, Matthew O'Keefe wrote:
> > If more LVM users and developers fill these out and tell
> > us what they are doing with LVM, and what their immediate needs are,
> > we can better understand where to go in the future.
> > We are now starting to define the feature set
> > for LVM 5.0.
>
> Why 5.0?
>
> 	Christoph
>

This looks like a Cut-N-Paste error between the message that was sent out
to the LVM and GFS mailing lists (GFS is approaching release of 4.0, so it
makes sense that they are "starting to define the feature set for GFS
5.0". That probably should have been cut from the LVM msg :-) )

>

Re: [linux-lvm] nagging about the LVM usage survey

[Benoit SERRA]

Matthew O'Keefe a �crit :
> 
> If more LVM users and developers fill these out and tell
> us what they are doing with LVM, and what their immediate needs are,
> we can better understand where to go in the future.

I think that the immediate needs of most of the people is a working
vgextend
It's the most important feature of LVM, and it doesn't work !
Great !

Re: [linux-lvm] nagging about the LVM usage survey

[Heinz J. Mauelshagen]

On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 03:56:54PM +0100, Benoit SERRA wrote:
> 
> 
> Matthew O'Keefe a �crit :
> > 
> > If more LVM users and developers fill these out and tell
> > us what they are doing with LVM, and what their immediate needs are,
> > we can better understand where to go in the future.
> 
> I think that the immediate needs of most of the people is a working
> vgextend
> It's the most important feature of LVM, and it doesn't work !
> Great !

As pointed out on the list everybody is invited to get the actual
code from our CVS repository with:

"cvs -d :pserver:cvs@cvs.globalfilesystem.org:/data/cvs checkout -r LVM_0-9-patches LVM"

It contains the fix you are requesting.

Our 0.9.1 beta release will take place on friday or monday for people
who are able to wait.

Thanks for your understanding.

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Regards,
Heinz    -- The LVM Guy --

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Heinz Mauelshagen                                 Sistina Software Inc.
Senior Consultant/Developer                       Am Sonnenhang 11
                                                  56242 Marienrachdorf
                                                  Germany
Mauelshagen@Sistina.com                           +49 2626 141200
                                                       FAX 924446
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Re: [linux-lvm] nagging about the LVM usage survey

[Benoit SERRA]

"Heinz J. Mauelshagen" a �crit :
> 
> As pointed out on the list everybody is invited to get the actual
> code from our CVS repository with:
> 
> "cvs -d :pserver:cvs@cvs.globalfilesystem.org:/data/cvs checkout -r LVM_0-9-patches LVM"
> 
> It contains the fix you are requesting.
> 
> Our 0.9.1 beta release will take place on friday or monday for people
> who are able to wait.
> 
> Thanks for your understanding.

Sorry for the messages, I corrected the bug by myself. I just add a
single line on the file lvm.c

I'm using the 2.4.0 kernel.
In file lvm.c
At line 2026, in function lvm_do_vg_extend
Just after the line :
if ( ret != 0 ) return ret;	

add :

pv_ptr = vg_ptr->pv[p];

Recompile the kernel and reboot.
Ok It work

Re: [linux-lvm] nagging about the LVM usage survey

[Daniel Mitzlaff]

From: Benoit SERRA <bs@infologic.fr>
About: Re: [linux-lvm] nagging about the LVM usage survey:

> Matthew O'Keefe a écrit :
> >
[snip]
> I think that the immediate needs of most of the people is a working
> vgextend
> It's the most important feature of LVM, and it doesn't work !
> Great !

ACK, and there will be no way out before vgextend works ;)

Hackbyte - aka Daniel Mitzlaff (in rl only please;)
P.s.: But, know that programmers are alway's busy. And be sure that Heinz 
IS busy. ;)
P.p.s.: What about Bad-Block handling or including of WORM media (like 
CDROM) in future LVM Versions? ;)