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From: Erik Hensema <usenet@hensema.net>
Subject: Re: LVM/Device mapper breaks with -mm (was: Re: 2.5.66-mm1)
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 14:33:25 +0000 (UTC)
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Andries Brouwer (aebr@win.tue.nl) wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 12:26:37PM +0000, Erik Hensema wrote:
>> Andrew Morton (akpm@digeo.com) wrote:
>> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.5/2.5.66/2.5.66-mm1/
> 
>> LVM or device mapper seems to be broken in -mm. I've only tried the
>> following kernels so far:
>> 2.5.64 - works
>> 2.5.65-mm2 - doesn't work
>> 2.5.66 - works
>> 2.5.66-mm1 - doesn't work
> 
> Probably you are hit by
> 
>   dev_t-32-bit.patch
>     [for playing only] change type of dev_t
[...]
> You can revert this single patch and probably all will be fine.

For now I've reverted this patch and LVM is working again.

> More interesting would be to apply
> 
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103956089203199&w=3

I'd rather not change the ioctl interface, since that would make dual
booting with 2.5-vanilla harder.

-- 
Erik Hensema <erik@hensema.net>
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