*WARNING* ---- old stuff mentioned, pls don't say "get up to date"
;-) ------------> greets, another special question today: I had an issue w/ a customer server yesterday. It still runs kernel 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 due to the fact that they still run vmware-server-1.0.8.126538 and the related modules. Back then I figured out that newer vmware-modules wouldn't compile w/ newer kernels ... and so on. In fact they don't want to spend money on upgrading (vmware-server etc) because there will be a new and shiny server later this year. - But the guy asked me if we could swap harddrives to add space, and increase the LVM volume group etc. I said yes .. and upgraded stuff like udev and lvm2 a few weeks ago, just in case and to have the latest releases. It hit us yesterday when he swapped a fan and at reboot udev didn't create proper sdX and mdX devices anymore ... So I had to downgrade udev and lvm2 again to fit that ancient kernel. I used genlop to check which versions were installed at the time the last successful boot had happened. Right now I have: sys-fs/udev-124-r2 sys-fs/lvm2-2.02-56-r2 yep, old. The question: how to find out (without much trial and error) which releases of udev and lvm2 are the best/newest to use with that kernel? I don't want too much old bugs in the box on one hand while on the other hand I have to mask pkgs to keep it running. Maybe one of you has a hint for me. Thanks in advance, best regards, Stefan
