Messages in this thread | | | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Subject | Re: LVM 1.0 release decision | Date | Fri, 11 May 2001 11:02:48 -0600 (MDT) |
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Alan writes (re LVM): > Please fix the binary incompatibility in the on disk format between the > current code and your new release _before_ you do that. The last patches > I was sent would have screwed every 64bit LVM user. > > A new format is fine but import old ones properly. And if you do a new format > stop using kdev_t on disk - it will change size soon
Actually, there is no need to store kdev_t on disk at all, nor is there a need to store device name. By the time you have located the device, you don't need that information any more. I think that stuff is just a hold over from when in-core and on-disk data was the same, and should be removed.
Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto, \ would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?" http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ -- Dogbert - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.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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