Re: EVMS Submission for 2.5

[Shawn <core@enodev.com>]

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Since I am personally hoping for EVMSs inclusion, I just wanted to thank
you for being constructive in pointing out specific issues so that they
can be addressed.

Hopefully, folks can keep from starting a religious war. This /is/
fertile ground for one, too... Heavyweights have weighed in on all sides
of this fence, making (md|.*Volume Manage\S+) a very contentious topic...

On 10/02, Alexander Viro said something like:
> On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Kevin Corry wrote:
> > On behalf of the EVMS team, I'd like to submit the Enterprise Volume
> > Management System for inclusion in the 2.5 Linux kernel tree.
> > 
> > To make this as simple as possible for you, there is a Bitkeeper
> > tree available with the latest EVMS source code, located at:
> > http://evms.bkbits.net/linux-2.5
> > This tree is sync'd with the linux-2.5 tree on linux.bkbits.net
> > as of about noon today (Oct 2).
>  
> > - Add a function, walk_gendisk(), to drivers/block/genhd.c to allow
> >   EVMS to get information about the disks on the system from the
> >   gendisk list in a safe manner.
> 
> Consider that one vetoed.  Linus, please do _not_ apply until that
> stuff is resolved - it conflicts with a bunch of cleanups we'll
> need.

--
Shawn Leas
core@enodev.com

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						--  it wasn't doing
what I was doing.
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