From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] struct char_device
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 20:06:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B0AFEFE.1198871C@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0105221909001.17373-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>
Alexander Viro wrote:
> Do we really want a separate queue for each partition? I'd rather have
> disk_struct created when driver sees the disk and list of partitions
> (possibly represented by struct block_device) anchored in disk_struct
> and populated by grok_partitions().
Alan recently straightened me out with "EVMS/LVM is partitions done
right"
so... why not implement partitions as simply doing block remaps to the
lower level device? That's what EVMS/LVM/md are doing already.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-23 0:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-22 20:54 [PATCH] struct char_device Andries.Brouwer
2001-05-22 21:17 ` Martin Dalecki
2001-05-22 22:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-05-22 23:51 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-23 0:06 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2001-05-23 0:14 ` Jens Axboe
2001-05-23 2:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-05-23 3:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-05-23 3:21 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-05-23 9:05 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-23 2:35 ` Linus Torvalds
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-05-23 20:01 Andries.Brouwer
2001-05-23 18:28 Andries.Brouwer
2001-05-23 18:42 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-23 15:24 Wayne.Brown
2001-05-23 13:34 Andries.Brouwer
2001-05-23 17:54 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-24 10:35 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-05-23 12:29 Andries.Brouwer
2001-05-23 12:30 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-23 13:26 ` Helge Hafting
2001-05-23 11:57 Andries.Brouwer
2001-05-23 12:13 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-23 6:47 Andries.Brouwer
2001-05-23 0:28 Andries.Brouwer
2001-05-23 0:38 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-23 0:22 Andries.Brouwer
2001-05-23 0:29 ` Martin Dalecki
2001-05-23 0:20 Andries.Brouwer
2001-05-23 2:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-05-23 0:01 Andries.Brouwer
2001-05-22 23:33 Andries.Brouwer
2001-05-23 0:03 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-22 22:17 Andries.Brouwer
2001-05-22 22:34 ` Martin Dalecki
2001-05-22 22:47 ` Martin Dalecki
2001-05-23 0:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-05-23 0:14 ` Jens Axboe
2001-05-23 2:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-05-23 12:35 ` Martin Dalecki
2001-05-22 21:35 Andries.Brouwer
2001-05-22 22:00 ` Martin Dalecki
2001-05-22 19:52 Andries.Brouwer
2001-05-22 20:10 ` Alexander Viro
[not found] <Pine.GSO.4.21.0105221007460.15685-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu >
2001-05-22 15:26 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2001-05-22 16:08 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-05-22 16:12 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-22 17:30 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-05-22 17:41 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-22 19:22 ` Guest section DW
2001-05-22 19:25 ` Alexander Viro
2001-05-22 19:38 ` Oliver Xymoron
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.10.10105221050080.8984-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
2001-05-22 14:59 ` Tommy Hallgren
2001-05-22 14:40 Tommy Hallgren
2001-05-22 14:18 Alexander Viro
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