From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <199904162148.AA09281@mailgate1b.telekom.de> From: Heinz Mauelshagen Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Swap/DB devices Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 23:47:06 METDST In-Reply-To: <14103.41220.857159.602916@dukat.scot.redhat.com>; from "Stephen C. Tweedie" at Apr 16, 99 9:43 pm Sender: owner-linux-lvm Errors-To: owner-linux-lvm List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: sct@redhat.com Cc: mge@ts1.ez-darmstadt.telekom.de, linux-lvm@msede.com > > On Thu, 15 Apr 1999 16:24:10 METDST, Heinz Mauelshagen > 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?). > On Fri, 16 Apr 1999 21:43:48 +0100 (BST), Stephen Tweedie said: > > 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. > It's simply a matter of userland (lv_create_node() and friends in lvmlib) to create the LVM 'raw' device specials. Only regular buffer cached device specials are created up to 0.6. Regards, Heinz -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Systemmanagement C/S Deutsche Telekom AG Entwicklungszentrum Darmstadt Heinz Mauelshagen Otto-Roehm-Strasse 71c Senior Systems Engineer Postfach 10 05 41 64205 Darmstadt mge@ez-darmstadt.telekom.de Germany +49 6151 886-425 FAX-386 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-