There was a question yesterday about Linux LVM -- this just
crossed the public beta testing list ...
-- Russ Herrold
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Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 10:43:27 +0100
From: Stephen C. Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Reply-To: skipjack-list@redhat.com
To: skipjack-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: LVM in installer?
Hi,
On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 04:12:19PM -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> >>>>> "JT" == Jay Turner <jkt@redhat.com> writes:
>
> JT> No, we have LVM support in the kernel, but it's still quite
> JT> fragile, so we don't have the option in the installer.
>
> Which is no big deal for me, but I do have to wonder what makes LVM
> fragile in Red Hat's (or your) opinion?
Just in the "pvmove" code I found two data corrupters and a deadlock.
I've fixed the problems I found, but the whole LVM codebase is
basically unmaintainable (even Sistina, the current maintainers, have
discarded it and rewritten LVM2 entirely from scratch.)
Cheers,
Stephen
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