On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 03:26:30PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote: > Thanks for your patches. I don't have time right know to look at the > technicalities in detail.
I did not get any response about the patches from upstream yet.
> Do we have all of the relevant Debian LVM
> and devmapper reading this thread ? If not we should make sure that
> they look at it.
There are 5 reverse dependencies to devmapper: lvm2, lilo,
multipath-tools, dmraid, cryptsetup.
I can speak for lvm2 and multipath-tools. lilo is not affected by this
problem, as it only uses them to find block numbers. The remaining
packages are dmraid and cryptsetup.
I don't think they got knowledge about that thread. Can you post a
pointer?
> I'm also encouraged by the fact that you've written patches at all;
> this suggests that you do seem to be taking the matter seriously,
I developed the idea for this fix some months ago, but never found the
time to implement it. So I should have refrained from tagging the bugs
wontfix.
The lvm2 patch lacks one additional functionality where I don't know if
it is possible to implement: I want to make the permissions dependent on
the metadata tags or just record them in the metadata.
> although your comments don't always give that impression.
This may be a sign for beeing overloaded. I just try to finish my
prediploma and the mathematics course needs a lot of work.
> If you're finding it difficult to write long and coherent explanations
> in English please feel free to write in German. My German is probably
> good enough to understand your points if you spell them out clearly
> (and at length!) and I would be happy to try to act as an
> intermediary.
Thank you for the offer.
Bastian
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