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From: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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 12:58:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130524105852.GA26617@frolo.macqel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130524100452.GA15570@infradead.org>

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 06:04:52AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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.

Is lvm2 a generic tool for discovering foreign partition layouts, or it is
about one linux-specific lvm implementation ?

Philippe

  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-24 10:58 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
2013-05-24 10:58         ` Philippe De Muyter [this message]
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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