Re: Device-mapper submission for 2.4

Bill Rugolsky Jr.
2003-12-09T17:03:08Z

On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 12:10:06PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> As far as I know, we already have the similar functionality in 2.4 with
> LVM. Device mapper provides the same functionality but in a much cleaner
> way. Is that right?

Yes.

And migration of root-on-LVM users to 2.6 will be *greatly* helped if users
can get LVM2/DM working on 2.4 (by upgrading lvm/initscripts/mkinitrd),
and then move to 2.6.

And LVM1 snapshots in 2.4 have limited value, due to the performance impact.

Bill Rugolsky