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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
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