Hello Joe, >>> On 2018/6/12 at 22:22, in message <20180612142219.ixpzqxqws3qiwqbm@reti>, Joe Thornber <thornber@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 03:01:27AM -0600, Gang He wrote: >> Hello List, >> >> I saw there was a tag "v2_02_178-rc1" for LVM2, then I have some questions > about the upcoming LVM v2_02_178. >> 1) Will there be the version v2_02_178 for LVM2? since I saw some text about > Version 3.0.0 in the git change logs. > > Yes there will be. We've had no bug reports for the -rc, so the final > release will be the same as the -rc. Between LVM2 v2_02_178-rc1 and LVM2 v2_02_177, there will not be any components/features remove, except include some bug fixes, right? Thanks a lot. Gang > >> 2) For the next LVM2 version, which components will be affected? since I saw > that clvmd related code has been removed. > > We've decided to bump the version number to 3.0.0 for the release > *after* 2.02.178. This change in version number indicates the *start* > of some large changes to lvm. > > Obviously the release notes for v3.0.0 will go into this more. But, > initially the most visible changes will be removal of a couple of > features: > > clvmd > ----- > > The locking required to provide this feature was quite pervasive and > was restricting the adding of new features (for instance, I'd like to > be able to allocate from any LV not just PVs). With Dave Teigland's > lvmlockd I think the vast majority of use cases are covered. Those > that are wedded to clvmd can continue to use LVM2.02.* > > Also, testing cluster software is terribly expensive, we just don't > have the resources to provide two solutions. > > lvmapi > ------ > > This library has been deprecated for a while in favour of the dbus api. > > > - Joe > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
