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Choosing a volume manager for 2.5

Posted Oct 17, 2002 18:17 UTC (Thu) by grytpype (guest, #2826)
Parent article: Choosing a volume manager for 2.5

I think it's unbelievable that the next stable kernel might ship without any way to access LVM volumes. I have gigabytes of data on LVM volumes, and I will have a hell of a time migrating to 2.6 if there's no LVM support. There's such a thing as backwards compatibility!

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Posted Oct 18, 2002 2:24 UTC (Fri) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]

There's also such a thing as patch(1).

What's the big deal? If Linus chooses to not apply the patches (and I don't think he should yet, they're both too green), both LVM2 and EVMS will track the stable kernel tightly.