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Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 18:44:38 -0800
From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: Paul Jakma <paul@clubi.ie>, Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
cc: Joe Thornber <thornber@sistina.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Device-mapper submission for 2.4
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> I'd really like to see one of:
> 
> - backwards compat: 2.6 have LVM1 support
>
> - the DM tools to support both LVM1 and LVMx in 2.6, on a *long-term* 
>   basis

Some form of backward compatibility from 2.6 would seem a much more 
sensible thing to fight for. Foisting forward comaptibility on an 
older release seems like a bad road to go down.
 
M.