[linux-lvm] dmsetup works, but LVM2 fails
Urs Thuermann
urs at isnogud.escape.de
Mon Apr 3 15:15:56 UTC 2006
Alasdair G Kergon <agk at redhat.com> writes:
> Some of the patches that the latest lvm2 tools now rely upon have
> not been backported to 2.4 kernels, and we didn't put workarounds
> into libdevmapper.
OK, thanks. What patches are these? Critical bug fixes? New
features?
> For now, you're limited to using older versions of the the tools
> (device-mapper 1.01 and lvm2 2.01).
Do you mean by "For now" that this will change? On the
not-so-long-term I will hopefully find the time change to 2.6 anyway,
also because of dm-crypt. But for a couple of weeks or months I'll
stick to 2.4.
urs
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