From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 08:46:51 +0000 From: Patrick Caulfield Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] lvm buglet in 0.9.1_beta Message-ID: <20010209084651.A528@tykepenguin.com> References: <20010208091418.A529@tykepenguin.com> <200102081838.f18Icgf11614@webber.adilger.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200102081838.f18Icgf11614@webber.adilger.net>; from adilger@turbolinux.com on Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 11:38:42AM -0700 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 Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 11:38:42AM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote: > Patrick, you write: > > On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 11:15:55AM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > > Sure you can run fdisk on just about anything, but you can't access the > > > partitions unless it is a partitioned device (i.e. the minor numbers > > > mean "look at a partition"). > > > > I wasn't being entirely serious here, but the original bug report had > > a /proc/partitions file showing several minors attached to major 72 so > > it seemed reasonable to me that it was partitioned. > > There is a problem, IMHO, that LVM assumes a partitioned device is the > same thing as a DOS partitioned device. I'm sure that anyone using > BSD/Sun/SGI/etc disklabels can not use LVM for this reason. The only > reason LVM does this is to check the partition type (not very important > IMO), otherwise we could just check /proc/partitions and be done, like > the #ifdef __alpha__ code. It does work with SUN & SGI disklabels since beta3. I've been testing that. patrick