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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0704091848150.21426@yvahk01.tjqt.qr> Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 18:49:56 +0200 (MEST) From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de> To: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@...il.com> cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org> Subject: Re: I give up On Apr 9 2007 11:37, Gene Heskett wrote: >On Monday 09 April 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: >>Gene Heskett wrote: >> >>No; device mapper is the kernel portion of LVM2. >> >> Jeff, who actively avoids LVM on home computers > >Ya shoulda warned me. :-) > >It should have lots bigger warning labels, in bright red self-illuminating >signs, than it does. Actually, you have to blame some FC developer for making an LVM-based setup the _default_ for home installs (aka "FC", enterprise is RHEL/¢OS). >It in fact seems to work well, but it is a major >breakage for some common apps, like doing backups... dm is on 254 for me.. in opensuse with a 2.6.20 that is. I wonder why it even moves around. However, even then, those who use udev and device names rather than (major,minor) tuples should not have any problem. Jan -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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