Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756574AbYBEFxh (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Feb 2008 00:53:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753195AbYBEFx3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Feb 2008 00:53:29 -0500 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:57667 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752496AbYBEFx2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Feb 2008 00:53:28 -0500 Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 21:53:04 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Igor M Podlesny Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dm-devel@redhat.com, Alasdair G Kergon Subject: Re: > You may find that you need to update your lvm userspace tools. Message-Id: <20080204215304.8b909402.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <47A7F4DB.3070406@gmail.com> References: <43d009740802022335y21c3f93ep4e444bef71338045@mail.gmail.com> <20080202235103.20dd9768.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <47A71040.5000300@gmail.com> <20080204052709.12f4e0d3.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <47A7F4DB.3070406@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.1 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1405 Lines: 32 On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 12:32:11 +0700 Igor M Podlesny wrote: > On 2008-02-04 20:27, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 20:16:48 +0700 Igor M Podlesny wrote: > [...] > >> Now I can say that both 2.6.24-mm1 and 2.6.24-git11 do NOT "see" any > >> of mine LVM-2 disks. pvscan, for e.g., finds nothing at all. > > > > You may find that you need to update your lvm userspace tools. > > You're right; I've updated my initrd with fresh lvm > userspace-counterpart and now the problem has been fixed. Sorry for > groundless alert. > No, breakage of a userspace interface is considered a serious regression. If this was deliberate and utterly unavoidable, well, that's bad but sometimes these things happen. We do prefer to go through elaborate notification processes to minimise the disruption, which afaik did not happen here. If, however, the breakage was was unintentional then we should find the cause and fix it asap, and backport the fix into 2.6.24.1. Please tell us what version of the userspace tools you were previously runnning. Could someone in dm-devel land please get involved? -- 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/