From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
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: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 04:52:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130812115234.GA7709@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130524105852.GA26617@frolo.macqel>
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 12:58:52PM +0200, Philippe De Muyter wrote:
> > 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 ?
lvm is mostly about the Linux specific formats. If you want to create
a separate userspace consumer for device mapper that's probably also
fine, but if you need support for complex layours device mapper is the
way to go, and the partitioning layer isn't getting you anywhere.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-12 11:52 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
2013-08-12 11:52 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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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