[linux-lvm] Inclusion of LVM into the Linux Kernel...

[linux-lvm] Inclusion of LVM into the Linux Kernel...

[Dominic J. Eidson]

Hi Linus,

As you (may or may not) know, Heinz Mauelshagen has written a LVM
implementation for Linux, and the wish that this be included in the main
kernel tree (not just as part of Alan's -ac patches), is out there.
According to a post Heinz made to the linux-lvm mailing list
(http://linux.msede.com/lvm/mlist/archive/0286.html), the issue had
already been proposed to you, however you responded that you wanted to
wait before LVM was included into the kernel, to see weather there was
enough interest out there for it. The first suggestion was that everybody
e-mail you and express their interest, however we quickly decided that you
would be rather un-grateful for all the spam (as I'm sure you get more
than enough e-mail in one day) - and we suggested a petition which those
interested could sign, and then we could present it to you.

The petition is in no way intended as "peer pressure", or intended to try
to force you into including LVM into the kernel - by no means - it is
merely an attempt to show that the interest *is* out there, and that we
believe that Linux would benefit (especially when dealing with large
corporations) from having a good LVM implementation.

The "petition" can be found at the following address:

http://www.the-infinite.org/lvm_petition/



Sincerely,
Dominic J. Eidson 
(and the rest of the Linux-LVM mailing list)

-- 
Dominic J. Eidson
                                         "Baruk Khazad! Khazad ai-menu!" - Gimli
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Re: [linux-lvm] Inclusion of LVM into the Linux Kernel...

[Heinz Mauelshagen]

Hi Dominic,

believe it or not 8*)

We now have

   Stephen Tweedie,
   Ted Ts'o and
   Hans Reiser

on our petition!


Would you be so kind as to point out that they are on to Linus?

I'm just moving from our "Linux Storage Management Workshop" in Darmstadt
to "Linux-Kongress" in Augsburg and don't have time.

Thx very much for your and everybodies support and help!


Cheers,
Heinz

Dominic wrote:
>
> Hi Linus,
> 
> As you (may or may not) know, Heinz Mauelshagen has written a LVM
> implementation for Linux, and the wish that this be included in the main
<SNIP>

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Re: [linux-lvm] Inclusion of LVM into the Linux Kernel...

[Shane Shrybman]

> We now have
> 
>    Stephen Tweedie,
>    Ted Ts'o and
>    Hans Reiser
> 
> on our petition!
> 

This is excellent news!

I have just submitted my second post to Slashdot. The first post was
submitted last week and I assume did not get posted to the site. I do not
think it would hurt if other people also posted to Slashdot.

Does anyone know if we are even on Linus' radar? Any news?

Shane

Re: [linux-lvm] Inclusion of LVM into the Linux Kernel...

[Harald Milz]

Heinz Mauelshagen <mauelsha@ez-darmstadt.telekom.de> wrote:

> We now have
>    Stephen Tweedie,
>    Ted Ts'o and
>    Hans Reiser
> on our petition!

And a couple more!

> Would you be so kind as to point out that they are on to Linus?

> I'm just moving from our "Linux Storage Management Workshop" in Darmstadt
> to "Linux-Kongress" in Augsburg and don't have time.

See you tomorrow :-)

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