Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261206AbUCUUTc (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Mar 2004 15:19:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261221AbUCUUTc (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Mar 2004 15:19:32 -0500 Received: from smtp4.wanadoo.fr ([193.252.22.27]:17414 "EHLO mwinf0403.wanadoo.fr") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261206AbUCUUTa (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Mar 2004 15:19:30 -0500 Message-ID: <405DF8CD.4090608@free.fr> Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 21:19:25 +0100 From: christophe varoqui User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (X11/20040208) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger Cc: "Kevin P. Fleming" , Jeff Garzik , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Wilfried Weissmann , Device mapper devel list , Arjan van de Ven , Neil Brown , Thomas Horsten , Christophe Saout Subject: Re: ATARAID/FakeRAID/HPTRAID/PDCRAID as dm targets? References: <405C8B39.8080609@gmx.net> <405CAEC7.9080104@pobox.com> <405CFC85.70004@backtobasicsmgmt.com> <405DD9E2.4030308@pobox.com> <405DE18B.7090505@gmx.net> <405DE2B6.7060003@backtobasicsmgmt.com> <405DF09C.9060804@gmx.net> <405DF48D.90606@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <405DF48D.90606@gmx.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 957 Lines: 26 >>>>- Would an EVMS plugin or a simple script calling dmsetup be the way to >>>>go? If I go the dmsetup route, is there any chance to get partition >>>>detection on top of the ATARAID for free (by calling another dm tool)? >>> >>>This was posted a while back; I don't know what the status of it being >>>merged into util-linux is. >>> >>>http://lwn.net/Articles/13958/ > > Christophe V.: What is the currrent status of your work? > It mutated into kpartx, as I ported the compilation to klibc. It is functionaly unchanged since that LWN report. I know it works for partitioned multipath devmaps, partitioned loops, partioned md ... It needs more testing and a lot of integration thinking. regards, cvaroqui - 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/