From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Philippe De Muyter Subject: [OT] which software project for a aix disk partition scanner for linux Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 21:48:33 +0200 Message-ID: <20130515194833.GA28447@frolo.macqel> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from smtp2.macqel.be ([194.78.208.39]:6807 "EHLO smtp2.macqel.be" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754709Ab3EOUdq (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 May 2013 16:33:46 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp2.macqel.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73DA9130D4B for ; Wed, 15 May 2013 22:24:20 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp2.macqel.be ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.macqel.be [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id C8NNaLWXMy7u for ; Wed, 15 May 2013 22:24:18 +0200 (CEST) Received: from frolo.macqel.be (frolo.macqel [10.1.40.73]) by smtp2.macqel.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4E56130D20 for ; Wed, 15 May 2013 22:24:18 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi, After having looked after a AIX LVM logical volume discovery tool and a AIX JFS file system driver for linux, I have written both myself (for read-only access only). I plan to submit the jfs driver (which I currently have called jfsv3) to linux-fsdevel, but the partition scanner does not fit well in block/partitions, which supports only contiguous partitions. Similarly kpartx (part of multipath-tools) does seem to have the same limitations as block/partitions. I am currently able to produce a table for input of dmsetup, but dmsetup is a generic tool that does not support any particular partition layout. I would like to get some suggestions of existing software projects where my code would fit well. Thanks in advance Philippe -- Philippe De Muyter +32 2 6101532 Macq SA rue de l'Aeronef 2 B-1140 Bruxelles