From: Jan Niehusmann <jan@gondor.com>
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>
Cc: linux-lvm@msede.com
Subject: [linux-lvm] Re: lvm.h kernel/userspace differences
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 13:47:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000901134708.A6408@gondor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20000901132936.A3526@gondor.com>; from jan@gondor.com on Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 01:29:36PM +0200
> - kernel's lv_v2_t has an additional field "uint8_t __unused;" _in the middle_
> of the struct. Huh. What's that?
Additional information:
It's been included in linux-2.3.99-pre9 or -pre10. The patch was proposed by
Andrea Arcangeli in a mail to linux-kernel on Apr 5. He writes:
> o inserts a pad in the lv_t structure to avoid breaking the
> binary tools interface. I think everybody prefers to lose
> 32 bit per logical volume in the system than having to
> change binary tools while switching between 2.2.x and 2.3.x
> to make snapshotting to work :).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-09-01 11:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-08-29 7:18 [linux-lvm] Strange Ulf Bartelt
2000-08-29 16:22 ` [linux-lvm] Dazed & Confused Andreas Dilger
2000-08-29 18:32 ` [linux-lvm] rpm Jan Niehusmann
[not found] ` <200009010540.XAA04818@lynx.turbolabs.com>
2000-09-01 11:29 ` [linux-lvm] lvm.h kernel/userspace differences Jan Niehusmann
2000-09-01 11:47 ` Jan Niehusmann [this message]
2000-09-01 17:53 ` [linux-lvm] " Andreas Dilger
2000-08-31 18:15 ` [linux-lvm] Dazed & Confused Marcelo Tosatti
2000-09-01 8:01 ` Andreas Dilger
2000-08-29 17:58 ` [linux-lvm] Strange Nils Juergens
2000-08-30 7:08 ` Ulf Bartelt
2000-09-01 8:25 ` Andreas Dilger
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20000901134708.A6408@gondor.com \
--to=jan@gondor.com \
--cc=adilger@turbolinux.com \
--cc=linux-lvm@msede.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.