From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263851AbTLJSHY (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Dec 2003 13:07:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263857AbTLJSHY (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Dec 2003 13:07:24 -0500 Received: from hibernia.jakma.org ([213.79.33.168]:37769 "EHLO hibernia.jakma.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263851AbTLJSHV (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Dec 2003 13:07:21 -0500 Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 18:07:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Paul Jakma X-X-Sender: paul@fogarty.jakma.org To: Joe Thornber cc: Jens Axboe , Marcelo Tosatti , Linux Mailing List Subject: Re: Device-mapper submission for 2.4 In-Reply-To: <20031210174418.GF476@reti> Message-ID: References: <20031209134551.GG472@reti> <20031209143412.GI472@reti> <20031209222624.GA6591@reti> <20031210084546.GG3988@suse.de> <20031210174418.GF476@reti> X-NSA: iraq saddam hammas hisballah rabin ayatollah korea vietnam revolt mustard gas MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Joe Thornber wrote: > The LVM1 driver was removed because dm covered the same > functionality + lots more, and is more flexible. Yes, DM seems quite nice. > The LVM2 tools still understand the LVM1 metadata format, so there > is no problem about not being able to read data in 2.6. Ah, and this capability is /not/ going away? If so, then that works for me. Its just i got the vague impression that support was going to be excised at some stage soonish, which is what worries me. If not, apologies, and then indeed there's no reason for DM in 2.4. > - Joe regards, -- Paul Jakma paul@clubi.ie paul@jakma.org Key ID: 64A2FF6A warning: do not ever send email to spam@dishone.st Fortune: Will you loan me $20.00 and only give me ten of it? That way, you will owe me ten, and I'll owe you ten, and we'll be even!