Re: Announce: LVM Patch against kernel 2.3.28

[Alan Cox]

> That said, we don't distrurb other folks's code, so why is it such an issue?
> 
> I don't understand the comment about exporting half of the buffer cache into
> itself.

Because its not easy to prove you dont disturb other code. You make some stuff
global that wasnt for example.

> > There is also a problem that right now neither ext3 or reiserfs can journal
> > over software raid.
> 
> This is a RAID/MM design issue.  Surely you can't blame us for that one.... and
> surely it is not so hard to make journaling and RAID exclusive configurations
> until it gets worked out.....

I'm not blaming anyone for it. Someone asked for a state of play. Current state
of play is raid+journalling = problems. I don't see how 'blame' applies to that

Alan