From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 16:13:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 16:12:57 -0400 Received: from c2bapps2.btconnect.com ([193.113.209.22]:48825 "HELO c2bapps2.btconnect.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 16:12:43 -0400 Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 21:13:03 +0100 To: linux-lvm@sistina.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Re: *** ANNOUNCEMENT *** LVM 1.0 available at www.sistina.com Message-ID: <20010815211303.B1221@btconnect.com> In-Reply-To: <20010815185005.A32239@sistina.com> <200108151755.f7FHtmTH013535@webber.adilger.int> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200108151755.f7FHtmTH013535@webber.adilger.int>; from adilger@turbolinux.com on Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 11:55:48AM -0600 From: Joe Thornber Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andreas, On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 11:55:48AM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > Sorry, I don't get the list email anymore, despite it telling me I'm > subscribed (may be my fault, I don't know), please reply to l-k where > I know I will see it. Your mail is broken, I have tried to mail you many times over the last few weeks from different email addresses and different ISP's. Other people have been trying too. Did you notice a time when it suddenly went quiet ? > Saying you "need" the old versions of the installed tools to read the > on disk data is bogus, IMNSHO. You could easily have a flag which says > "calculate the PE offsets using the old algorithm or the new algorithm". > This could easily be keyed off of the presence/absence of the new > pe_offset field in the pv_data struct on disk, and whether or not you > actually have the misaligned PEs in the first place. That assumes you have just two alternatives, this is not the case. > When I talked to them last, the IBM EVMS folks didn't have any such > problems correctly reading either the old (possibly offset) or new > layouts with the same driver. Then they don't understand the problem, though hopefully by the time they release people will have migrated to the new format. - Joe