Re: v2.6 vs v3.0

Jens Axboe
2002-09-29T16:22:22Z

On Sun, Sep 29 2002, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 05:42:54PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
>
> > Has anyone actually sent patches to Linus removing LVM completely from
> > 2.5 and adding the LVM2 device mapper? If I used LVM, I would have done
> > exactly that long ago. Linus, what's your oppinion on this?
>
> Joe Thornber sent a patch removing LVM1, but LVM2 has yet to
> make an appearance in 2.5.x patchform afair. LVM is in one of
> those sneaky positions where they could theoretically cheat
> the feature freeze, as whats in the tree right now is fubar,
> and we need /something/ before going 2.6/3.0.

Indeed. Joe, what's the status on dm2 for 2.5? I seem to recall seeing
patches for 2.5, maybe even as long as 6 months ago.

> It'd be nice to get /something/ in before the feature freeze so
> people can bang on this after halloween when we ramp up stability
> testing instead of waiting until the last minute.

Yep, as far as I'm concerned, if a 2.5 dm2 is in decent shape then I'd
glady kill lvm1 immediately.

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Jens Axboe