Re: [2.6] Most likely to be merged by Halloween... THE LIST

Joe Thornber (joe@fib011235813.fsnet.co.uk)
Tue, 23 Jul 2002 09:16:11 +0100


On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 04:42:19PM -0500, Steve Pratt wrote:
> Also, if it is so easy to link parted with LVM2 to get greater
> functionality,
> why hasn't the LVM team or Andrew done this yet?

Because we don't want to. LVM is a volume manager *not* an fs
manager. We may however release a few little shell scripts, as a
seperate package, that wrap LVM2 commands and fs commands - no more
than this is needed for your much vaunted fs functionality.

- Joe
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