Re: Device-mapper submission for 2.4

Paul Jakma
2003-12-09T21:07:54Z

On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Joe Thornber wrote:

> Sort of, but please take into account the fact that the LVM1 driver
> has bugs (particularly on the failure paths), and EVMS and other
> volume managers dont use the LVM1 driver. The snapshot target
> (which I didn't include in the core patches) is hugely better
> performance wise.

Would this be of any aid to 2.4 users to transition to DM, so that
they can then easily test 2.6 and boot back to 2.4 if needs be?

If so, my vote would be for it to be included in 2.4.

> - Joe

regards,
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