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Subject: Re: v2.6 vs v3.0
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
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On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 16:42, Jens Axboe wrote:
> Has anyone actually sent patches to Linus removing LVM completely from
> 2.5 and adding the LVM2 device mapper? If I used LVM, I would have done
> exactly that long ago. Linus, what's your oppinion on this?

I added LVM2 a while ago for my 2.4-ac tree and haven't looked back, its
much nicer code and its clean and easy to understand. I wouldnt
guarantee its bug free but its the kind of code where you can *find* a
bug if one turns up