Patches for the 2.4.27 kernel for EVMS 2.3.4. See the top-level INSTALL for more details before applying these patches. Apply each patch with: cd /usr/src/linux-2.4.27/ (or 26, 25, 24, 23, 22, or 21) patch -p1 < filename.patch dm-snapshot.patch: Extra patch for DM snapshot code. Allows origin devices to be correctly activated before their snapshot devices. Required if you want to use snapshots with EVMS. dm-bbr.patch: Patch to provide a Bad-Block-Relocation target for Device-Mapper. Required if you want to use BBR devices.