From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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: Fri, 24 May 2013 06:04:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130524100452.GA15570@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130521072754.GB19266@frolo.macqel>
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 09:27:54AM +0200, Philippe De Muyter wrote:
> AIX LVM permits to make "logical volumes" which are made of multiple slices
> of multiple disks. The new code allows only access to the "logical volumes"
> which are made of one slice on the probed disk, a slice being a contiguous
> disk area. The code also detects "logical volumes" made of multiple slices
> on the probed disk, but can not describe them to the partition layer, because
> the partition layer generic code does not support that. When such
> non-contiguous "logical volumes" are detected, a diagnostic message is
> printed.
This very much screams like it should be implemented in the lvm2
userspace package using the dm kernel driver.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-24 10:04 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
2013-05-21 7:27 ` Philippe De Muyter
2013-05-24 10:04 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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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