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From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
To: "Linda A. Walsh" <lvm@tlinx.org>
Cc: LVM general discussion and development <linux-lvm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Bug!  lvs shouldn't need 'root' access
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 03:53:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110711025332.GE7857@agk-dp.fab.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E1A6065.8010209@tlinx.org>

On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 07:31:01PM -0700, Linda A. Walsh wrote:
>    As for reading control information -- um....is there a reason why the 
> information
> couldn't be exported through a /proc interface?

Complexity of supported device construction.

We do export some basic core dm state now through sysfs.

Alasdair

  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-11  2:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-10 17:40 [linux-lvm] Bug! lvs shouldn't need 'root' access Linda A. Walsh
2011-07-10 22:08 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2011-07-11  1:24   ` Linda A. Walsh
2011-07-11  2:24     ` Alasdair G Kergon
2011-07-11  2:31       ` Linda A. Walsh
2011-07-11  2:53         ` Alasdair G Kergon [this message]
2011-07-12 10:58   ` Linda A. Walsh

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