On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 03:26:30PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote: > Thanks for your patches. I don't have time right know to look at the > technicalities in detail. I did not get any response about the patches from upstream yet. > Do we have all of the relevant Debian LVM > and devmapper reading this thread ? If not we should make sure that > they look at it. There are 5 reverse dependencies to devmapper: lvm2, lilo, multipath-tools, dmraid, cryptsetup. I can speak for lvm2 and multipath-tools. lilo is not affected by this problem, as it only uses them to find block numbers. The remaining packages are dmraid and cryptsetup. I don't think they got knowledge about that thread. Can you post a pointer? > I'm also encouraged by the fact that you've written patches at all; > this suggests that you do seem to be taking the matter seriously, I developed the idea for this fix some months ago, but never found the time to implement it. So I should have refrained from tagging the bugs wontfix. The lvm2 patch lacks one additional functionality where I don't know if it is possible to implement: I want to make the permissions dependent on the metadata tags or just record them in the metadata. > although your comments don't always give that impression. This may be a sign for beeing overloaded. I just try to finish my prediploma and the mathematics course needs a lot of work. > If you're finding it difficult to write long and coherent explanations > in English please feel free to write in German. My German is probably > good enough to understand your points if you spell them out clearly > (and at length!) and I would be happy to try to act as an > intermediary. Thank you for the offer. Bastian -- No one may kill a man. Not for any purpose. It cannot be condoned. -- Kirk, "Spock's Brain", stardate 5431.6
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