Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Apr 2006 03:10:13 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PROBLEM] Device-mapper snapshot metadata userspace breakage |
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Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.Helsinki.FI> wrote: > > Hi Andrew, > > Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.Helsinki.FI> wrote: > > > The commit aa14edeb994f8f7e223d02ad14780bf2fa719f6d "[PATCH] device-mapper > > > snapshot: load metadata on creation" breaks userspace and is blocking us > > > from moving to the 2.6.16 series kernel. Debian doesn't have the > > > new required LVM version in stable yet. Is the change intentional? > > On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Andrew Morton wrote: > > The changelog said > > > > If you're using lvm2, for this patch to work properly you should update > > to lvm2 version 2.02.01 or later and device-mapper version 1.02.02 or > > later. > > > > Which was pretty bad of us. I hope LVM 2.02.01 userspace is > > back-compatible with older kernels? > > Yeah, I know, but that still leaves us in an unfortunate situation as the > 2.6.16 series has security fixes that are not AFAIK in 2.6.15. Anyway, if > the change is intentional and approved, I guess we'll just have to live > with it. Thanks! >
Well I wouldn't say it was "approved". It was disapproved of and grudgingly accepted :(
More info here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/23/130
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