[SM-Discuss] lvm and device-mapper

Eric Sandall eric at sandall.us
Mon Nov 10 21:16:13 EST 2008


On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:12:34 +0100 (CET)
"Remko van der Vossen" <wich at stack.nl> wrote:

> > What to do?
> > 1) Deprecate device-mapper, always install default lvm with device
> > mapper. 2) Update device-mapper to use sources of lvm, fixed lvm
> > spell not to install device-mapper (no idea how difficult it is).
> > 3) Deprecate device-mapper spell and update lvm spell to ask user if
> > install only device-mapper or device-mapper with lvm.
> > 4) Merge device-mapper and lvm spells into device-mapper-lvm spell
> > and ask user if install also lvm?
> > ...
> 
> How about:
> 5) Update device-mapper to use sources of lvm, conflict lvm with
> device-mapper, have device-mapper and lvm provide DEVICE-MAPPER and
> change any depends on device-mapper other than lvm itself to
> DEVICE-MAPPER.
> 
> Remko

I like this approach best. :) Otherwise I'd say #2 or #1, in that
order.

-sandalle

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