From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756124Ab3HLLwo (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Aug 2013 07:52:44 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.9]:35261 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755253Ab3HLLwk (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Aug 2013 07:52:40 -0400 Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 04:52:34 -0700 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Philippe De Muyter Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Karel Zak , Jens Axboe Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] Add aix lvm partitions support files Message-ID: <20130812115234.GA7709@infradead.org> References: <1367270313-18871-1-git-send-email-phdm@macqel.be> <1367270313-18871-3-git-send-email-phdm@macqel.be> <20130520163927.8e4c2fe753b60a02c368ceb5@linux-foundation.org> <20130521072754.GB19266@frolo.macqel> <20130524100452.GA15570@infradead.org> <20130524105852.GA26617@frolo.macqel> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130524105852.GA26617@frolo.macqel> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.