From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 16 May 2001 19:42:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 16 May 2001 19:42:22 -0400 Received: from router-100M.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.17]:37389 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 16 May 2001 19:42:12 -0400 Subject: Re: LVM 1.0 release decision To: Mauelshagen@sistina.com Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 00:38:48 +0100 (BST) Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20010516150312.B13039@sistina.com> from "Heinz J. Mauelshagen" at May 16, 2001 03:03:12 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > code and your new release _before_ you do that. > > The new code *can* automagically read and deal with 0.8 created VGDAs. > What are you refering too in detail here? Yes. This is good The important thing is that the external interface and on disk format dont break - the code can be broken/mended repeatedly the ABI is rather harder to cure > In the LV struct we can change it easily, because we just need the minor > number which will nicely fit into the 32 bit we have. Ok.