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From: "Bryn M. Reeves" <bmr@redhat.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] dmsetup and 2.6.31 kernel?
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:27:53 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1264678073.8090.137.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B616F73.9050208@redhat.com>

On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 12:05 +0100, Milan Broz wrote:
> On 01/28/2010 10:50 AM, Hadmut Danisch wrote:
> > With a 2.6.31 kernel (ubuntu) I run into the problem that some dmsetup
> > and dmlosetup commands that used to work before do not work anymore. 
> > 
> > e.g.
> > 
> > dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/testdisk count=1000
> > dmsetup create xxxtest --table '0 1000 loop /tmp/testdisk 0'
> 
> dm-loop target was never in upstream kernel, it is still available only
> as separate kernel patch.
> 
> You had patched kernel previously perhaps?

I think at some point someone was packaging unofficial Ubuntu kernels
with the dm-loop patch applied (I got some bugmail from launchpad about
it).

Hadmut, is it possible you had one of these installed previously?

Regards,
Bryn.

      reply	other threads:[~2010-01-28 11:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-28  9:50 [linux-lvm] dmsetup and 2.6.31 kernel? Hadmut Danisch
2010-01-28 11:05 ` Milan Broz
2010-01-28 11:27   ` Bryn M. Reeves [this message]

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