On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 12:44:05PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote: > Eric Hopper writes: > > On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 12:44:46PM -0600, AJ Lewis wrote: > > > LVM 0.9.1 Beta6 RPMS are up on the Sistina FTP site: > > > ftp://ftp.sistina.com/pub/LVM/0.9.1_beta/binaries/redhat > > > > Would you consider releasing kernel patches against the 2.4.x > > series kernels? > > > > I want to upgrade to 2.4.x someday soon. I currently use LVM on > > my system, but my confusion over exactly what patches I need to apply > > prevents me from upgrading to 2.4.x. > > Actually, the LVM CVS (and I assume tarball as well) is fairly well > set up to handle this. Since it is a lot of work to maintain patches > against every kernel (consider each pre, ac kernel also). They rather > ship the whole lvm*.[ch]. If you are compiling as a module, you shuld > be able to compile directly in LVM/kernel (pending a patch that was > posted today). OK. That makes sense. Trying to decide if that's a good way to do it or not. I guess its easier for brand new users, and so that's a good thing. I'm expecting different because of how reiserfs does things and previous experience with LVM. :-) > Generally, the current LVM kernel code will work properly with the > current tools. On occasion, the current tools will not work with an > older kernel (or vice versa). It is my opinion that we should treat > that as a bug to be fixed, until such a time we really need to > increase the IOP version, at which point the kernel/tools will refuse > to work with older code. It seems to me like newer versions of the tools should work with older kernel code up to a certain number of versions back. Thanks, -- The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed. -- Alexander Hamilton -- Eric Hopper (hopper omnifarious mn org http://www.omnifarious.org/~hopper) --
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