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LVM2 (device mapper) merged into 2.5

[Posted October 29, 2002 by corbet]

Linus is back from his cruise, and has already merged an incredible number of patches. Most of them are of the mundane "fixes and updates" variety, but he has made one crucial decision in that he has just merged the "device mapper" code, the kernel component of the LVM2 volume manager. Linus has not expressed any public opinion on EVMS, the other volume manager; it is possible that he could end up merging both.

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Posted Oct 29, 2002 3:36 UTC (Tue) by mwh63 (guest, #321) [Link]

Mundate? Mundane!

LVM2 (device mapper) merged into 2.5

Posted Oct 30, 2002 1:04 UTC (Wed) by Peter (guest, #1127) [Link]

Woohoo! Maybe I'll actually try out 2.5 now - I'm pretty heavily committed to LVM (well, insofar as I need /usr and /var), and I have been too lazy / antsy to apply third-party patches.

(I'm also happy because I trust AC's judgment about dm being more suitable for a real kernel than evms, but I haven't evaluated them for myself so it's just a "trust the expert" thing.)