From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>,
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] Add aix lvm partitions support files
Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 16:39:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130520163927.8e4c2fe753b60a02c368ceb5@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1367270313-18871-3-git-send-email-phdm@macqel.be>
On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 23:18:30 +0200 Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be> wrote:
> adding partitions/aix.h and partitions/aix.c
>
> Partitions (called Logical Volumes in AIX) can be non-contiguous or
> even split on more than one disk. Altough we detect such partitions,
> we cannot describe them to the Linux partitions layer, so we simply
> discard them and issue a diagnose message.
This description is rather hard to follow.
It appears that the new code permits Linux to access some types of AIX
partitions, but not other types, correct? If so, can we please provide
a more explicit description of which typesw are and are not supported?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-20 23:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-29 21:18 [PATCH v2 0/5] partitions: add AIX LVM support Philippe De Muyter
2013-04-29 21:18 ` [PATCH 1/5] partitions/msdos.c: end-of-line whitespace and semicolon cleanup Philippe De Muyter
2013-04-29 21:18 ` [PATCH 2/5] Add aix lvm partitions support files Philippe De Muyter
2013-05-20 23:39 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2013-05-21 7:27 ` Philippe De Muyter
2013-05-24 10:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-05-24 10:58 ` Philippe De Muyter
2013-08-12 11:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-08-12 12:21 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2013-04-29 21:18 ` [PATCH 3/5] partitions/msdos: enumerate also AIX LVM partitions Philippe De Muyter
2013-05-20 23:41 ` Andrew Morton
2013-05-21 7:16 ` Philippe De Muyter
2013-04-29 21:18 ` [PATCH 4/5] partitions/Makefile: compile aix.c if configured Philippe De Muyter
2013-04-29 21:18 ` [PATCH 5/5] partitions/Kconfig: add the AIX_PARTITION entry Philippe De Muyter
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-04-25 21:10 [RFC PATCH 0/5] Add aix lvm partitions support Philippe De Muyter
2013-04-25 21:10 ` [PATCH 2/5] Add aix lvm partitions support files Philippe De Muyter
2013-04-29 9:37 ` Karel Zak
2013-04-29 11:40 ` Philippe De Muyter
2013-04-29 12:36 ` Karel Zak
2013-04-29 15:34 ` Philippe De Muyter
2013-04-30 6:41 ` Jens Axboe
2013-04-30 6:45 ` Philippe De Muyter
2013-04-29 21:50 ` Philippe De Muyter
2013-04-30 7:08 ` Philippe De Muyter
2013-04-30 7:18 ` Philippe De Muyter
2013-05-01 5:35 ` Philippe De Muyter
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