Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758531Ab3ETXja (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 May 2013 19:39:30 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:45210 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758282Ab3ETXj3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 May 2013 19:39:29 -0400 Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 16:39:27 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Philippe De Muyter Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Karel Zak , Jens Axboe Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] Add aix lvm partitions support files Message-Id: <20130520163927.8e4c2fe753b60a02c368ceb5@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1367270313-18871-3-git-send-email-phdm@macqel.be> References: <1367270313-18871-1-git-send-email-phdm@macqel.be> <1367270313-18871-3-git-send-email-phdm@macqel.be> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.2.0beta5 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 892 Lines: 21 On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 23:18:30 +0200 Philippe De Muyter 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? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/