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 16:21:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 16:21:18 -0400 Received: from ns.caldera.de ([212.34.180.1]:59292 "EHLO ns.caldera.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 16:21:03 -0400 Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 22:20:30 +0200 From: Christoph Hellwig To: lvm-devel@sistina.com Cc: Joe Thornber , Kurt Garloff , linux-lvm@sistina.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [lvm-devel] Re: [linux-lvm] Re: *** ANNOUNCEMENT *** LVM 1.0 available at www.sistina.com Message-ID: <20010815222030.A23962@caldera.de> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , lvm-devel@sistina.com, Joe Thornber , Kurt Garloff , linux-lvm@sistina.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20010815175659.A29749@sistina.com> <20010815182548.U3941@gum01m.etpnet.phys.tue.nl> <20010815185005.A32239@sistina.com> <20010815190428.A11146@athlon.random> <20010815210622.A1221@btconnect.com> <20010815221623.C11146@athlon.random> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010815221623.C11146@athlon.random>; from andrea@suse.de on Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 10:16:23PM +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 10:16:23PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > You can put the algorithm used by beta7 in a separate program and ask > this program where the pe start. Since the beta7 tools knows where the > pe_start (the proof is that I can use lvm in my machines), also this new > program will know where the pe_start. In principle yes, but beta7 is the wrong target, the one that needs to be converted easily is the old (=0.9) format, people using betas should really know what they are doing while a seamless upgrade from the latest release version is a must. Christoph -- Whip me. Beat me. Make me maintain AIX.