From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965379AbXDIPhZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Apr 2007 11:37:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965550AbXDIPhY (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Apr 2007 11:37:24 -0400 Received: from vms040pub.verizon.net ([206.46.252.40]:42596 "EHLO vms040pub.verizon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965379AbXDIPhW (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Apr 2007 11:37:22 -0400 Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 11:37:00 -0400 From: Gene Heskett Subject: Re: I give up In-reply-to: <461A5204.1050206@garzik.org> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Jeff Garzik Message-id: <200704091137.01336.gene.heskett@gmail.com> Organization: Organization? very little MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline References: <200704091007.58535.gene.heskett@gmail.com> <461A5204.1050206@garzik.org> User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 09 April 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> Now the 64k$ question: While running with LVM2 managed disks, is it >> possible to run without dm_mod, the device-mapper? If so, please tell >> me how to achieve this. > >No; device mapper is the kernel portion of LVM2. > > Jeff, who actively avoids LVM on home computers Ya shoulda warned me. :-) It should have lots bigger warning labels, in bright red self-illuminating signs, than it does. It in fact seems to work well, but it is a major breakage for some common apps, like doing backups... -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Gates' Law: Every 18 months, the speed of software halves. -- From a Slashdot.org post