From: Kevin Corry <corryk@us.ibm.com>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
evms-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: EVMS Submission for 2.5
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 09:53:49 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <02100309534906.05904@boiler> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0210031042210.15787-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>
On Thursday 03 October 2002 09:51, Alexander Viro wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Kevin Corry wrote:
> > > IOW, the real question is what are you going to do with that list of
> > > gendisks?
> >
> > EVMS will try to read volume metadata from each device and activate
> > volumes if it finds any pertinent metadata.
>
> _Ouch_. "Each" as in...? E.g. do you want to do that for floppies?
> Cdroms? EVMS volumes themselves? Things like /dev/loop? (and if yes, at
> which point do you do that?)
EVMS can filter out devices that don't make sense to probe for volumes.
Currently it ignores such things as floppies and cd-roms, as well as EVMS
volumes. We have actually added the ability to probe loop devices, though,
since we had several requests for that functionality.
--
Kevin Corry
corryk@us.ibm.com
http://evms.sourceforge.net/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-03 15:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-02 21:33 EVMS Submission for 2.5 Kevin Corry
2002-10-02 22:14 ` Alexander Viro
2002-10-02 22:03 ` Kevin Corry
2002-10-02 23:02 ` Alexander Viro
2002-10-03 13:04 ` Kevin Corry
2002-10-03 14:51 ` Alexander Viro
2002-10-03 14:53 ` Kevin Corry [this message]
2002-10-03 15:37 ` Alexander Viro
2002-10-03 16:13 ` Greg KH
2002-10-03 16:21 ` Alexander Viro
2002-10-03 16:30 ` Greg KH
2002-10-03 17:00 ` David Lang
2002-10-03 17:27 ` Greg KH
2002-10-03 19:52 ` [Evms-devel] " Oliver Neukum
2002-10-03 21:37 ` Greg KH
2002-10-03 21:02 ` Oliver Neukum
2002-10-03 22:56 ` Greg KH
2002-10-03 23:03 ` Alexander Viro
2002-10-04 8:07 ` Oliver Neukum
2002-10-05 0:06 ` Greg KH
2002-10-03 16:55 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-10-03 19:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-10-02 22:27 ` Shawn
2002-10-02 22:19 ` Shawn
2002-10-02 22:43 ` Greg KH
2002-10-03 12:13 ` Kevin Corry
2002-10-03 16:23 ` Greg KH
2002-10-03 16:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-10-03 21:56 ` Kevin Corry
2002-10-03 23:07 ` Greg KH
2002-10-04 0:39 ` Kevin Corry
2002-10-04 13:06 ` Alan Cox
2002-10-04 13:07 ` [Evms-devel] " Kevin Corry
2002-10-04 17:29 ` Kai Henningsen
2002-10-03 14:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-03 14:59 ` [Evms-devel] " Michael Clark
2002-10-03 15:08 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-03 15:03 ` Shawn
2002-10-03 15:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-03 15:41 ` [Evms-devel] " Mike Tran
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