> One more thing. I wouldn't get too enamored of LVM just yet. I was in a meeting yesterday and one of the Unix gurus we work with on Linux/390 (and who is usually pretty knowlegeable about these things) mentioned that LVM is going to be sunsetted. It is rumored that Sistina will not be enhancing it beyond the 2.4 kernel, only providing basic maintenance. This same person said that Linus won't be putting LVM into 2.6 when it comes out. LVM will apparently be replaced by something similar but more capable from IBM, and that this new filesystem is already in the 2.4.17 kernel. There was an IBM rep there at the meeting and he seemed to know about this change as well. We've put all our expansion of LVM on hold until we find out if this rumor is true and (if so) what the replacement is and how you work with it.
According to Sistina's press release dated 12/9/02 ... LVM2 will be a standard 2.6 component ... and sure enough you will find device mapper in the std 2.5.xx trees. I also run device mapper on my 2.4.19 390 kernels and I have used it with a 2.4.20 ppc64 kernel ... testing testing testing testing. -Don
