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From: Kevin Corry <corryk@us.ibm.com>
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To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: EVMS Submission for 2.5
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 09:53:49 -0500
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On Thursday 03 October 2002 09:51, Alexander Viro wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Kevin Corry wrote:
> > > IOW, the real question is what are you going to do with that list of
> > > gendisks?
> >
> > EVMS will try to read volume metadata from each device and activate
> > volumes if it finds any pertinent metadata.
>
> _Ouch_.  "Each" as in...?  E.g. do you want to do that for floppies? 
> Cdroms? EVMS volumes themselves?  Things like /dev/loop? (and if yes, at
> which point do you do that?)

EVMS can filter out devices that don't make sense to probe for volumes. 
Currently it ignores such things as floppies and cd-roms, as well as EVMS 
volumes. We have actually added the ability to probe loop devices, though, 
since we had several requests for that functionality.

-- 
Kevin Corry
corryk@us.ibm.com
http://evms.sourceforge.net/
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