Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261888AbUCVLsN (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Mar 2004 06:48:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261899AbUCVLsN (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Mar 2004 06:48:13 -0500 Received: from pop.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:25231 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261888AbUCVLsL (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Mar 2004 06:48:11 -0500 X-Authenticated: #21910825 Message-ID: <405ED218.8080003@gmx.net> Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 12:46:32 +0100 From: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030821 X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: christophe varoqui 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> <405DF8CD.4090608@free.fr> In-Reply-To: <405DF8CD.4090608@free.fr> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1182 Lines: 35 christophe varoqui wrote: >>>>> - 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. Oh, you will get a lot of testing once I use kpartx to handle partitions on top of ataraid. I'm aiming for a working solution at the end of this week. Regards, Carl-Daniel - 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/