From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
To: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>, Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cc: device-mapper development <dm-devel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Emulate BLKRRPART on device-mapper
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:23:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090720182324.GD32330@agk-dp.fab.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200907081414.50698.knikanth@suse.de>
On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 02:14:50PM +0530, Nikanth Karthikesan wrote:
> From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
> Subject: Emulate BLKRRPART on device-mapper
>
> Partitions on device-mapper devices are managed by kpartx (if at
> all). So if we were just to send out a 'change' event if someone
> called BLKRRPART on these devices, kpartx will be triggered via udev
> and can manage the partitions accordingly.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
> Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Please could I have a 'Tested-by' for this one?
I agree with the idea, but I need some evidence that this specific patch
works correctly. (The block layer is supposed to handle that class
of ioctls itself and I didn't think dm saw them.)
Alasdair
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-20 18:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-08 8:44 [PATCH] Emulate BLKRRPART on device-mapper Nikanth Karthikesan
2009-07-20 18:23 ` Alasdair G Kergon [this message]
2009-07-21 16:13 ` [PATCH][RFC] " Milan Broz
2009-07-22 7:06 ` Hannes Reinecke
2009-07-22 8:12 ` Milan Broz
2009-07-22 8:19 ` Hannes Reinecke
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