Re: 2.6.4-mm1

Mickael Marchand
2004-03-11T15:11:31Z

just the ioctl cmd failed I reported in my first mail.
then dmsetup just stops...

Cheers,
Mik

Le jeudi 11 Mars 2004 15:48, Andi Kleen a écrit :
> > hmm right now, dm/lvm absolutely does not work on amd64/32 bits. all
> > ioctls calls are failling...
>
> With no messages in the log?
>
> Maybe they have broken data structures again, most likely
> because of different long long alignment. A lot of people
> who attempt to design data structures that don't need translation
> get that wrong unfortunately.
>
> Emulating that stuff would be hard unfortunately because it has an rather
> over complicated ioctl structure that would be hard to write sane
> emulation code for.
>
> Complain to the DM maintainers.
already did.