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From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.name>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [2.6] Most likely to be merged by Halloween... THE LIST
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Am Sonntag, 21. Juli 2002 08:57 schrieb Andi Kleen:
> Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:
> > > o EVMS (Enterprise Volume Management System)      (EVMS team)
> >
> > or LVM2, which already appears to be scrubbed down and clean
>
> Is there any reason why not both can go in? As far as I know neither
> of them needs much of core changes, they are more like independent
> "drivers" of the generic block layer stacking interface. There are
> already multiple drivers of this - LVM and the various MD personalities.

The interfaces to filesystems for things like online resizing.
If these are not compatible and stay compatible, you cause fs
developers a lot of pain.

	Regards
		Oliver

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