Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 00:19:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 00:19:58 -0400 Received: from thunk.org ([140.239.227.29]:49080 "EHLO thunker.thunk.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 00:19:58 -0400 Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 00:24:35 -0400 From: "Theodore Ts'o" To: Alan Cox Cc: Lars Marowsky-Bree , Dave Jones , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove LVM from 2.5 (resend) Message-ID: <20021002042434.GA13971@think.thunk.org> Mail-Followup-To: Theodore Ts'o , Alan Cox , Lars Marowsky-Bree , Dave Jones , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References:

<20021001154808.GD126@suse.de> <20021001184225.GC29788@marowsky-bree.de> <1033520458.20284.46.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1033520458.20284.46.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 839 Lines: 17 On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 02:00:58AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > DM is small and clean. It may well be that if we go the DM way (and I > think we should) that those bits of EVMS that we want (like cluster) > actually come out a lot cleaner than in EVMS itself DM is small and clean because it's severely lacking in functionality. Last I checked it couldn't do RAID 5 or r/w snapshots without completely bypassing its core infrastructure (since you're no longer just doing simple block remapping at that point), and once you add all that stuff, it's likely to become much more complex. - Ted - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/