Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760318Ab3EXKE6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 May 2013 06:04:58 -0400 Received: from 173-166-109-252-newengland.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([173.166.109.252]:37860 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759561Ab3EXKE4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 May 2013 06:04:56 -0400 Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 06:04:52 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Philippe De Muyter Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Karel Zak , Jens Axboe Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] Add aix lvm partitions support files Message-ID: <20130524100452.GA15570@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> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130521072754.GB19266@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 Content-Length: 971 Lines: 18 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. -- 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/