From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 12:05:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 12:05:49 -0400 Received: from h24-64-71-161.cg.shawcable.net ([24.64.71.161]:53244 "EHLO webber.adilger.int") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 12:05:42 -0400 From: Andreas Dilger Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 10:05:57 -0600 To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: IBMs LVM? Message-ID: <20010920100557.Z14526@turbolinux.com> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200109142155.f8ELtVi03827@shay.ecn.purdue.edu> <20010920135717.A11737@caldera.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010920135717.A11737@caldera.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sep 20, 2001 13:57 +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Anyway, I will get my design for improved block device stacking and unified > partition discovery back from the attic and implement a protopy ontop of > the bio patchset. I'll Cc my ennouncement to evms-devel, you're free to > layer ontop if you want. Just FYI (in case you haven't seen it) the LVM folks are working on something like this in their "LVM2" repository. I've been seeing the CVS commit messages, but have not actually taken a look at the code yet, so I can't comment on it but it may save you some effort. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto, \ would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?" http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ -- Dogbert