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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.name>
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Subject: Re: [2.6] Most likely to be merged by Halloween... THE LIST
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On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 10:33:59AM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> 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.

Both LVM and EVMS do file system resizing in user space and by calling
some file system specific modules. So the filesystem is in control.
No issue.

-Andi
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