Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 11:59:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 11:59:39 -0500 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com ([195.223.140.120]:13162 "EHLO penguin.e-mind.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 11:59:25 -0500 Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 18:00:35 +0100 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Richard Gooch Cc: Andreas Dilger , Linux LVM Development list , Linux kernel development list , Heinz Mauelshagen Subject: Re: [lvm-devel] *** ANNOUNCEMENT *** LVM 0.9.1 beta5 available at www.sistina.com Message-ID: <20010221180035.N25927@athlon.random> In-Reply-To: <20010220234219.B2023@athlon.random> <200102210031.f1L0VQU15564@webber.adilger.net> <20010221021252.A932@athlon.random> <200102210349.f1L3nHE03110@mobilix.atnf.CSIRO.AU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200102210349.f1L3nHE03110@mobilix.atnf.CSIRO.AU>; from rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca on Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 02:49:17PM +1100 X-GnuPG-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.gnupg.asc X-PGP-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.asc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 02:49:17PM +1100, Richard Gooch wrote: > You definately can mknod(2) on devfs. [..] So then why don't we simply create the VG ourself with the right minor number and use it as we do without devfs? We'll still have a global 256 VG limit this way but that's not a minor issue. Andrea - 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/