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Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 21:12:49 +0200
From: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove LVM from 2.5 (resend)
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On Tue, 01 Oct 2002, Dave Jones wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 04:52:44PM +0200, venom@sns.it wrote:
>  > A Logical Volume Manager is needed on Unix servers, and so it is needed
>  > also on Linux.
>  > If this LVM is obsoleted, then when will LVM2 be merged?
>  > really we cannot have a 2.6 or 3.0 tree without a Volume Manager, it would
>  > be a big fault.
> 
> No-one suggested 2.6.0 shipping without /something/, but having a dead
> LVM1 in _2.5_ doesn't help anyone. We've gone 6 months with it being in
> a broken/uncompilable state, going another month without it isn't a big
> deal. Getting something in before halloween is however a goal the
> Sistina folks should be aiming for.

How about EVMS kernel-space merge instead?