Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422856AbWJLQFw (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Oct 2006 12:05:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422855AbWJLQFw (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Oct 2006 12:05:52 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:26797 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422856AbWJLQFv (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Oct 2006 12:05:51 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 17:05:15 +0100 From: Alasdair G Kergon To: Phillip Susi Cc: Alasdair G Kergon , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Heinz Mauelshagen Subject: Re: dm stripe: Fix bounds Message-ID: <20061012160515.GD17654@agk.surrey.redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Alasdair G Kergon , Phillip Susi , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Heinz Mauelshagen References: <20060316151114.GS4724@agk.surrey.redhat.com> <452DBE11.2000005@cfl.rr.com> <20061012135945.GV17654@agk.surrey.redhat.com> <452E5FD0.8060309@cfl.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <452E5FD0.8060309@cfl.rr.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 726 Lines: 18 On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 11:31:28AM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote: > The correct thing to do is for dm to > accept the values and work properly. But there's ambiguity: should dm truncate just the last stripe(s) or all stripes equally, or use some other combination of truncation? The answer depends on the circumstances, and so it is for userspace, which should know which of those is required, to resolve the matter by supplying appropriate chunk sizes. Alasdair -- agk@redhat.com - 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/