On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 04:11:40AM -0700, jw schultz wrote:
>
> On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 11:50:26AM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote:
> > On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> > > PS: NOTE - I'm not going to merge either EVMS or LVM2 right now as things
> > > stand. I'm not using any kind of volume management personally, so I just
> > > don't have the background or inclination to walk through the patches and
> > > make that kind of decision. My non-scientific opinion is that it looks
> > > like the EVMS code is going to be merged, but ..
> >
> > A user's input, of not nearly as much weight as of the input you
> > suggested, and totally unencumbered by technical details:
> >
> > EVMS has been much more present to interested parties than LVM2. If --
> > as a user -- I was to choose either one RIGHT NOW (i. e. with a gun
> > against a head, a boss telling me 'I want a decision in 30 minutes', you
> > name it), I'd go for EVMS.
> >
> > But because EVMS just looks much less like a construction site than
> > dm2/LVM2 does.
> >
> > Just my two Euro cents.
>
> I'll add my $0.02US which (according to exchange rates) is
> worth more though almost worthless.
>
> Hate to say it but in this comparison LVM2 looses. Primary
> reason: Backward compatibility. People are going to need to
> be able to switch between kernels.
>
> So far everything indicates that LVM2 is not compatible with
> LVM. That LVM2 and LVM(1) can coexist-exist is irrelevant if
> 2.5 hasn't got a working LVM(1). And that would leave us
> with having to do backup+restore around the upgrade.
>
> Any on-disk changes also need to have an in-place translator.
> Just think about what it would take to do an upgrade, or
> downgrade, without in-place translation.
>
> Also 2.4 -> 2.6 should not be a feature reduction so
> snapshot volumes and any other LVM features missing from
> LVM2 are issues.
>
> --
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