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From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
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Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 21:43:48 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Swap/DB devices
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To: Heinz Mauelshagen <mauelsha@ez-darmstadt.telekom.de>
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Hi,

On Thu, 15 Apr 1999 16:24:10 METDST, Heinz Mauelshagen
<mauelsha@ez-darmstadt.telekom.de> said:

> There is a raw device patch available by Stephen Tweedie.
> IIRC it will make it into the 2.3 kernel (what do you say Stephen?).

That's the plan; Linus has approved it in principle.

> LVM has to be enhanced a little bit to support that patch.

I'm curious: why?  I would have thought that LVM should support any
requests coming in through ll_rw_block already.

--Stephen