From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263526AbTLIX6l (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2003 18:58:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263527AbTLIX6l (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2003 18:58:41 -0500 Received: from holomorphy.com ([199.26.172.102]:39648 "EHLO holomorphy.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263526AbTLIX6k (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Dec 2003 18:58:40 -0500 Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 15:58:23 -0800 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Paul Jakma Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , Joe Thornber , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Device-mapper submission for 2.4 Message-ID: <20031209235823.GT8039@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Paul Jakma , Marcelo Tosatti , Joe Thornber , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 11:46:13PM +0000, Paul Jakma wrote: > This leaves 2.4 LVM1 users with a /huge/ leap to take if they wish to > test 2.6. Backward compatibility is awkward because of the DM tools > issue (need both old and new installed and some way to pick at boot, > or manually setup LVM), and you're ruling out the other option of > adding forwards compatibility to 2.4. > This isnt a new fs which 2.4 users wont be using, its an existing > feature that has been reworked during 2.5 and is now incompatible in > 2.6 with 2.4. More over, its a feature on which access to data > depends. Just apply the patch if you're for some reason terrified of 2.6. -- wli