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From: "Kevin P. Fleming" <kpfleming@backtobasicsmgmt.com>
To: linux-lvm@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Re: LVM2 on top of RAID1? (x86_64)
Date: Thu Feb 12 13:40:04 2004	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <402BC89E.6020606@backtobasicsmgmt.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <402BBAEF.8000508@comedia.it>

Luca Berra wrote:

> i still believe it would be better if lvm ignored md component devices 
> completely.

In kernel 2.6 land this is easy to do as well (for everything, not just 
MD). When vgscan tries to open the device to read metadata, open it with 
O_EXCL. If any other kernel subsystem is currently using the device, 
then the open() will fail and vgscan can ignore the device.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-12 18:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-12 10:10 [linux-lvm] Re: LVM2 on top of RAID1? (x86_64) Douglas Kilpatrick
2004-02-12 12:41 ` Luca Berra
2004-02-12 13:40   ` Kevin P. Fleming [this message]
2004-02-12 15:05     ` Luca Berra
2004-02-12 15:30       ` Joe Thornber
2004-02-12 15:54         ` Luca Berra
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-02-09 10:36 [linux-lvm] " Douglas Kilpatrick
2004-02-09 10:43 ` [linux-lvm] " Måns Rullgård

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