From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 10:16:30 +0000 From: Patrick Caulfield Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Re: *** ANNOUNCEMENT *** LVM 0.9.1 beta1 available at www.sistina.com Message-ID: <20010117101630.C511@tykepenguin.com> References: <20010113114507.D15915@linuxcare.com> <200101130143.f0D1hNF19829@webber.adilger.net> <20010113170616.B22699@caldera.de> <20010116085117.A696@tykepenguin.com> <20010116121046.E2709@mvista.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010116121046.E2709@mvista.com>; from cduffy@mvista.com on Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 12:10:46PM -0800 Sender: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Errors-To: linux-lvm-admin@sistina.com Reply-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-lvm@sistina.com On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 12:10:46PM -0800, Charles Duffy wrote: > On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 08:51:18AM +0000, Patrick Caulfield wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 05:06:16PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 06:43:23PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > > > > Would it be possible to clean up the ioctl interface so we > > > > > dont need such large hacks for LVM support? I can do the work > > > > > but I want to be sure you guys will agree to it. > > > > If you're prepared to do the work we'd be glad to accept the patch - > > please send it to me or the list so I can check over it before > > committing it. As we don't have an UltraSPARC available for testing > > it's probably better done by someone who does ! > > I have an Ultra-1 available, presently in use as a prototyping system. > It's not currently using LVM and there's no unpartitioned space on the > drive, but if one of the core developers (or otherwise someone I have > reason to trust) wants to try testing LVM over loopback (or something > of that sort), I can provide access. I was hoping that Anton would volunteer as per his message in linux-kernel :-) Having looked in (too much) depth at the code I decided I don't know enough about Ultra-SPARCs to be able to do this on some else's machine. I've worked fairly extensively on Alphas (which are a pure 64 bit machine) but the sparc seems to have some bizarre 32 bit modes I know nothing about. patrick