Re: [PROBLEM] Device-mapper snapshot metadata userspace breakage

[Pekka J Enberg]

Hi Andrew,

Pekka J Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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!

				Pekka
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