Re: [Devil-linux-develop] useful patches to a 2.4.21 kernel

[Diego T. <dt...@co...>]

On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 02:02:26PM -0700, Dean Nedelman wrote:
> >>  ftp://ftp.sistina.com/pub/LVM2/device-mapper/device-mapper-latest.tgz
> >>  kernel patches for 2.4.21.
> >
> >Should we switch to LVM2 ? How stable is it?
> 
> LVM2 was selected over EVMS to replace LVM for the 2.6 kernel.  It probably
> shouldn't be considered stable at this point.  In fact, they are still
> trying to trace down Raid induced file corruption in the 2.6 kernel series.

i don't think so. in 2.6 there is a device_mapper infraestructure, that enables
you to use evms or lvm2 from userspace. There are 3 possibilities, md (the
usual raid stuff), dm (devicemapper) -> lvm2 || evms.

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