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From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Problem with vgscan/ vgcfgrestore
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 23:17:23 -0300 (BRST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0103132316220.2056-100000@imladris.rielhome.conectiva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010313232626.A31056@cistron.nl>

On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Andreas Dilger wrote:
> > Wichert writes:
> > > I figured that out by now. I think I'll add the LVM10 ioctls to 
> > > strace 4.4 actually :)
> > 
> > That would be nice.
> 
> Turns out this is impossible: LVM made the same mistake some of the
> OSS sound drivers did and used ioctl numbers that the kernel already
> uses for other purposes. This is not a problem for the kernel itself,
> but means a tool like strace can't decode syscalls.

Good thing this can be fixed with IOP-11 in 2.5 ;)

(at least, I can't really see a large base of user
programs becoming dependant on the LVM ABI...)

regards,

Rik
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However, without VM there's truly nothing to lose...

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-03-14  2:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-03-12 18:40 [linux-lvm] Problem with vgscan/ vgcfgrestore Daniel Whicker
2001-03-12 23:19 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-03-13  0:16   ` Daniel E Whicker
2001-03-13  0:23     ` Wichert Akkerman
2001-03-13  0:56       ` Andreas Dilger
2001-03-13  1:14         ` Wichert Akkerman
2001-03-13  1:40           ` Andreas Dilger
2001-03-13 22:26             ` Wichert Akkerman
2001-03-13 23:02               ` Andreas Dilger
2001-03-14  2:17               ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2001-03-13  5:12           ` AJ Lewis
2001-03-13  9:41             ` Jason Walker
2001-03-13  9:57             ` Patrick Caulfield
2001-03-13 17:35               ` AJ Lewis
2001-03-13  0:59     ` Andreas Dilger
2001-03-13  7:41       ` Luca Berra
2001-03-13 17:40         ` AJ Lewis

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