Re: [PATCH] Remove LVM from 2.5 (resend)

Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Tue, 1 Oct 2002 18:41:36 +0200


On Tue, Oct 01 2002, Joe Thornber wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 06:06:08PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 01 2002, Dave Jones wrote:
> > > Consider it patch 1/2 of the device mapper merge 8-)
> >
> > Indeed, the patches are also arriving out of order though, LVM remove
> > patch should be 2/2 not 1/2. IMO.
>
> If LVM remotely worked I would agree with you.

No matter the state of lvm, it's much better to day "1, here's the
replacement - 2, rip the old one out". What if device mapper for 2.5
really sucks? Maybe it's so bad that we'd rather fix up lvm1? Apparently
davej has patches that sort-of makes lvm work.

It's not likely, but still :-)

-- 
Jens Axboe

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