Re: Device-mapper submission for 2.4

[bill davidsen]

In article <Pine.LNX.4.56.0312101547590.1218@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Paul Jakma  <paul@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
| On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
| 
| > Some form of backward compatibility from 2.6 would seem a much more
| > sensible thing to fight for. Foisting forward comaptibility on an
| > older release seems like a bad road to go down.
| 
| I dont really care, but some kind of (long-term, ie lifetime of 
| either 2.4 or 2.6) compatibility is needed.

Where on earth did you get that? Is this some new policy Linus has put
forth, or something you wish were real? It certainly wasn't the case for
2.2 => 2.4 conversion, where is it writ that LVM1 needs to get
conversion help?
-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
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