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From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.name>
To: Shawn <core@enodev.com>
Subject: Re: [Evms-devel] Re: Linux v2.5.42
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 00:35:14 +0200
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> If neither LVM2 or EVMS are truly ready, no one is beholden to anyone
> else as to anything's inclusion in mainline.
>
> It's a matter of marketing so say whether Linux has volume management.
> If all the distros have LVM in some form, then "Linux has an LVM". So,
> no one can really say "Linux doesn't have an LVM so it's not enterprise
> ready.

This is not true. Something has to be in the mainline, so that bugs can
be fixed. This too important to be left to distributors.

Besides people who compile their own kernels are not that unimportant.

	Regards
		Oliver

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