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Subject: Re: v2.6 vs v3.0
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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.

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=1105826&forum_id=2003

CVS version may be up-to-date quite soon from reading the thread.
It seems to be further along in 2.5 support than LVM2 - also including
the fact that EVMS supports LVM1 metadata (which the 2.5 version of LVM2
may not do so quite so soon from mentions on the lvm list).

I haven't tried EVMS but certainly from looking at the feature set,
it looks more comprehensive and modular than LVM (with its support
for multiple metadata personalities).

I too have LVM on quite a few of my machines, including my desktop,
and if I wanted to test 2.5 right now - i'd probably have to do it
using EVMS.

~mc

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