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From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
To: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] LVM2 tools lvmcmdline.c major and minor number limits
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:53:39 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080213145338.GS29914@agk.fab.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1202909763.4345.129.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 01:36:03PM +0000, Darren Lavender wrote:
> I think the interest is _only_ in the minor number but I noticed that I
> had to specify --major at the command line or I received an error:
 
The validation probably broke at some stage.  One day someone might port the
multiple major number support from 2.4 to 2.6, but there doesn't seem to be any
demand for it.

Alasdair
-- 
agk@redhat.com

      reply	other threads:[~2008-02-13 14:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-13 11:02 [linux-lvm] LVM2 tools lvmcmdline.c major and minor number limits Darren Lavender
2008-02-13 12:15 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2008-02-13 13:36   ` Darren Lavender
2008-02-13 14:53     ` Alasdair G Kergon [this message]

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