From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 15:36:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 15:36:21 -0400 Received: from smtp3.cern.ch ([137.138.131.164]:45526 "EHLO smtp3.cern.ch") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 15:36:00 -0400 To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: David Balazic , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: IBMs LVM ? In-Reply-To: <3B9E255C.8943D6BB@uni-mb.si> <200109111526.f8BFQLr25266@ns.caldera.de> <20010911115713.D29347@turbolinux.com> <20010911200633.A5816@caldera.de> From: Jes Sorensen Date: 27 Sep 2001 21:36:19 +0200 In-Reply-To: Christoph Hellwig's message of "Tue, 11 Sep 2001 20:06:33 +0200" Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.070096 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.96) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>>> "Christoph" == Christoph Hellwig writes: Christoph> On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 11:57:13AM -0600, Andreas Dilger Christoph> wrote: >> Do you have a specific complaint? The current LVM kernel code >> isn't all that robust either (and the user-space code is not very >> pretty). Christoph> Please take a barf-bag, look at the code, look at the Christoph> unneded abstrations, look at the uneeded interfaces, look Christoph> at the code-duplication, look at the over-engineering. At least the IBM guys seem interested in listening and taking code/suggestions from the community. There was a fairly productive BOF at OLS a couple of months ago. Thats a lot more than we can say about the current LVM. Jes