Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Dec 2003 15:58:23 -0800 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: Device-mapper submission for 2.4 |
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On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 11:46:13PM +0000, Paul Jakma wrote: > This leaves 2.4 LVM1 users with a /huge/ leap to take if they wish to > test 2.6. Backward compatibility is awkward because of the DM tools > issue (need both old and new installed and some way to pick at boot, > or manually setup LVM), and you're ruling out the other option of > adding forwards compatibility to 2.4. > This isnt a new fs which 2.4 users wont be using, its an existing > feature that has been reworked during 2.5 and is now incompatible in > 2.6 with 2.4. More over, its a feature on which access to data > depends.
Just apply the patch if you're for some reason terrified of 2.6.
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