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From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>
Cc: mauelshagen@sistina.com, Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de>,
	linux-lvm@sistina.com, lvm-devel@sistina.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	sistina@sistina.com, mge@sistina.com
Subject: Re: *** ANNOUNCEMENT *** LVM 1.0 available at www.sistina.com
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 23:13:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010815231330.B27003@athlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010815185005.A32239@sistina.com> <200108151755.f7FHtmTH013535@webber.adilger.int>
In-Reply-To: <200108151755.f7FHtmTH013535@webber.adilger.int>; from adilger@turbolinux.com on Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 11:55:48AM -0600

On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 11:55:48AM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> 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".

Definitely. This is what I was asking for. That would be optimal.

> Also, since this bug exists only for a limited number of users (only a
> subset of users who created volumes with beta 5 and beta 6), it causes
> grief for anyone who is NOT affected by the bug.

Agreed. I understand that here I am biased but I don't care much about
that possible misalignment too because we never shipped a beta[56].

> Well, that is the future, and should not impact users of 2.4.x kernels.
> Just like we found an acceptable workaround to the (incompatible) IOP 11
> change (which was later reverted), it is possible to find an acceptable
> workaround for the new incompatible change.  Sadly, it is no longer my

Agreed.

Andrea

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-08-15 21:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-15 15:56 *** ANNOUNCEMENT *** LVM 1.0 available at www.sistina.com Heinz J . Mauelshagen
2001-08-15 16:25 ` Kurt Garloff
2001-08-15 16:50   ` Heinz J . Mauelshagen
2001-08-15 17:04     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-08-15 20:06       ` [linux-lvm] " Joe Thornber
2001-08-15 20:16         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-08-15 20:20           ` [lvm-devel] " Christoph Hellwig
2001-08-15 21:19             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-08-15 17:19     ` Kurt Garloff
2001-08-15 17:55     ` Andreas Dilger
2001-08-15 20:13       ` [linux-lvm] " Joe Thornber
2001-08-15 21:13       ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2001-08-15 19:14     ` Hubert Mantel
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-08-15 17:17 Heinz J . Mauelshagen
2001-08-15 18:35 ` Todd M. Roy
2001-08-15 19:23   ` AJ Lewis

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