Re: debian-installer status 2002-11-22
On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 16:16, Samuli Suonpaa wrote: Tollef Fog Heen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: EVMS support has been added.. I played with it a little, but it was broken because it was compiled with readline support, while no readline libraries were in the archive. I've just played around with it a bit more, and it looks like it needs some more work before it will work properly, but EVMS sure looks promising. Are you aware of the fact that EVMS will not be included in Linux kernel? Please consider using LVM2/DM instead. Although the EVMS kernel side support will not be included in the 2.6.x series. The EVMS user space tools (which are considered to be superior to LVM2/DM2) are being adapted for LVM2/DM. Hence developing an EVMS module is good, as in the short term we get to use a good logical volume manager with 2.4 but in the longer term this can be quickly and easily adapted to LVM2 + EVMS frontend. Reducing the overall code needed to be written! Woot! Regards, Rob -- Rob 'robster' Bradford Founder: http://www.debianplanet.org/ Developer: http://www.debian.org/ Monkey with keyboard: http://www.robster.org.uk/
Re: debian-installer status 2002-11-22
On Fri Nov 22, 2002 at 04:07:01PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: and PowerPC. Bdale started on ia64 last night. I've played around with getting it up and running on BSD, but no luck so far, busybox seems to be fairly Linux-centric. It is not a high priority, but if somebody picks it up, it would be good. Busybox devel (which I really should get packaged up) has the infrastructure needed to support multiple OSs... I don't plan to do the porting myself, since my plate is pretty full at the moment, but I can can certainly help to guide those wishing to do the port... -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen http://codepoet-consulting.com/ --This message was written using 73% post-consumer electrons--
Re: debian-installer status 2002-11-22
* Samuli Suonpaa | Tollef Fog Heen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | EVMS support has been added.. I played with it a little, but it was | broken because it was compiled with readline support, while no | readline libraries were in the archive. I've just played around with | it a bit more, and it looks like it needs some more work before it | will work properly, but EVMS sure looks promising. | | Are you aware of the fact that EVMS will not be included in Linux | kernel? Why would I care? :) Debian-installer is modular. Adding evms support means using an evms enabled kernel, then running evms instead of fdisk + mkfs. | Please consider using LVM2/DM instead. Nobody has cared enough to begin implementing support for those. -- Tollef Fog Heen,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are : :' : `. `' `-
Re: debian-installer status 2002-11-22
Tollef Fog Heen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: EVMS support has been added.. I played with it a little, but it was broken because it was compiled with readline support, while no readline libraries were in the archive. I've just played around with it a bit more, and it looks like it needs some more work before it will work properly, but EVMS sure looks promising. Are you aware of the fact that EVMS will not be included in Linux kernel? Please consider using LVM2/DM instead. Suonpää...
Re: debian-installer status 2002-11-22
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 06:16:11PM +0200, Samuli Suonpaa wrote: Are you aware of the fact that EVMS will not be included in Linux kernel? Are you aware of the fact that EVMS is being adapted to work with device-mapper instead of the EVMS kernel runtime? http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=1276050forum_id=2002 Please consider using LVM2/DM instead. There is no instead, these are not exclusive options. LVM2 integration with debian-installer will happen if and when someone does the work. Tollef Fog Heen helped me to provide udebs for EVMS; if someone volunteered to on integrate LVM2, I'm sure they would be welcomed by the debian-installer folks. -- - mdz
