Re: Device-mapper submission for 2.4

[Jens Axboe]

On Tue, Dec 09 2003, Joe Thornber wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 09:07:49PM +0000, Paul Jakma wrote:
> > On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Joe Thornber wrote:
> > Would this be of any aid to 2.4 users to transition to DM, so that
> > they can then easily test 2.6 and boot back to 2.4 if needs be?
> > 
> > If so, my vote would be for it to be included in 2.4.
> 
> yes

Seems to me, it's the lvm2 teams responsibility to provide easy
transition to 2.6 from 2.4. Merging dm in 2.4 right now looks like a
step in the wrong direction.

Arguments akin to "But XFS got merged, surely we can to" don't hold up
one bit. Should be obvious why.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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