2002-09-30 07:17:05

by Andrew Morton

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Subject: Re: v2.6 vs v3.0

Michael Clark wrote:
>
> On 09/30/02 05:46, Matthias Andree wrote:
> > On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Dave Jones wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Joe Thornber sent a patch removing LVM1, but LVM2 has yet to
> >>make an appearance in 2.5.x patchform afair. LVM is in one of
> >>those sneaky positions where they could theoretically cheat
> >>the feature freeze, as whats in the tree right now is fubar,
> >>and we need /something/ before going 2.6/3.0.
> >
> >
> > Is not EVMS ready for the show? Is Linux >=2.6 going to have LVM2 and
> > EVMS? Or just LVM2? I'm not aware of the current status, but I do recall
> > having seen EVMS stable announcements (but not sure about 2.5 status).
>
> From reading the EVMS list, it was working with 2.5.36 a couple weeks
> ago but needs some small bio and gendisk changes to work in 2.5.39.
>

It's going to break bigtime if someone ups and removes all the
kiobuf code.....


2002-09-30 13:35:11

by Kevin Corry

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Subject: Re: v2.6 vs v3.0

On Monday 30 September 2002 02:22, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Michael Clark wrote:
> > From reading the EVMS list, it was working with 2.5.36 a couple weeks
> > ago but needs some small bio and gendisk changes to work in 2.5.39.
>
> It's going to break bigtime if someone ups and removes all the
> kiobuf code.....

I don't think that would be the case, since EVMS doesn't use kiobuf's.

Kevin Corry
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