Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755233Ab3HLMWq (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Aug 2013 08:22:46 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:35677 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752383Ab3HLMWp (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Aug 2013 08:22:45 -0400 Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 13:21:50 +0100 From: Alasdair G Kergon 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: <20130812122150.GA28184@agk-dp.fab.redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Philippe De Muyter , Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Karel Zak , Jens Axboe 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> <20130812115234.GA7709@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130812115234.GA7709@infradead.org> Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd. Registered in England and Wales, number 03798903. Registered Office: 64 Baker Street, 4th floor, London, W1U 7DF. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 734 Lines: 16 On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 04:52:34AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > 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. If you can map the AIX volume manager objects onto the linux ones, you can write a 'format' module for lvm2 to handle them. Alasdair -- 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/