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On 29 Sep 2002, Alan Cox wrote:

> 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

I can't even get past "make apply-patches" with device-mapper.0.96.04 on
2.5.39.

Anyone running lvm2 on 2.5.3x ?

Thanks,
Jeff