Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Apr 2006 13:04:03 +0300 (EEST) | From | Pekka J Enberg <> | Subject | Re: [PROBLEM] Device-mapper snapshot metadata userspace breakage |
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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!
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