From: Mickael Marchand <marchand@kde.org>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Subject: Re: 2.6.4-mm1
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 16:10:02 +0100
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just the ioctl cmd failed I reported in my first mail.
then dmsetup just stops...

Cheers,
Mik

Le jeudi 11 Mars 2004 15:48, Andi Kleen a ?crit?:
> > hmm right now, dm/lvm absolutely does not work on amd64/32 bits. all
> > ioctls calls are failling...
>
> With no messages in the log?
>
> Maybe they have broken data structures again, most likely
> because of different long long alignment. A lot of people
> who attempt to design data structures that don't need translation
> get that wrong unfortunately.
>
> Emulating that stuff would be hard unfortunately because it has an rather
> over complicated ioctl structure that would be hard to write sane
> emulation code for.
>
> Complain to the DM maintainers.
already did.


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