On Sun, 06 Jan 2002 10:55:47 +0100,
"Ralf G. R. Bergs" <rabe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On Sun, 06 Jan 2002 12:23:12 +1100, Keith Owens wrote:
>>This just appeared on linux-kernel. It might throw some light on
>>recent bug reports about LVM.
>[...]
>>> LVM version 1.0.1-rc4(ish)(03/10/2001)
>>
>>Ah! You're using LVM! There are known bugs in LVM which cause memory
>>corruptions.[...]
>
>Does anyone know whether this bug also pertains to cases where LVM is compiled
>
>as a module, but isn't (actively) used?
LVM has no effect when it is a module that has not been loaded.
However compiling the kernel for MD (required for LVM) does affect the
base kernel. Without going through all the differences between the
kernel MD/LVM code and the code in the MD/LVM CVS tree, any statement
would be a guess - I don't want to guess.
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