Re: [dm-devel] Re: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1

Kay Sievers
2007-12-06T23:25:30Z

On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 18:12 -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Dec 2007 23:04:12 +0100, Kay Sievers said:
>
> > What's the value of SYSFS_DEPRECATED? Care to set it to yes, if it isn't,
> > and try again?
>
> I *knew* there was a D'Oh! error in here. ;)
>
> Bisection is fast closing in on gregkh-driver-block-device.patch, which broke
> my LVM almost the exact same way the *last* time it showed up in -mm ;)

Oh, it must not, if SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y is set. I hope we fixed all
issues. Please let us know if it does not work, then we will need to
look into it.

> > A fix for LVM to handle symlinks instead of directories is in the LVM
> > CVS tree, but there wasn't a release since August.
>
> I seem to recall it was 'nash' rather than LVM that had the indigestion the
> last time around.

I think that a recent nash should work, even with SYSFS_DEPRECATED=n.
Anyway, nothing should change when SYSFS_DEPRECATED set, nash works fine
here, with that.

Kay