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From: Dave Olien <dmo@osdl.org>
To: mauelshagen@redhat.com,
	LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] character device creation
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 10:21:33 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040401182133.GA25669@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040401085223.GC29222@redhat.com>


If I'm not mistaken, the raw(8) character device in 2.6 is
considered obsolete.  The same semantics can be gotten by
doing an open(2) on the block special file with the O_DIRECT
flag set.

On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 10:52:23AM +0200, Heinz Mauelshagen wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 12:26:39PM -0800, sachin wrote:
> > Hi
> > Can i Create a character device for a logical volume of lvm
> > If yes how to create and how lvm driver manage it or supports it
> 
> Yes. Have a look at 'man raw'.
> 
> > Thanks ,
> > Sachin
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-01 18:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-01 20:26 [linux-lvm] character device creation sachin
2004-04-01  8:52 ` Heinz Mauelshagen
2004-04-01 18:21   ` Dave Olien [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-04-01 20:27 [linux-lvm] Character " sachin
2004-04-02 16:41 [linux-lvm] character " sachin

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