Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 12:56:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 12:56:57 -0400 Received: from gw.uk.sistina.com ([62.172.100.98]:10756 "EHLO gw.uk.sistina.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 12:56:56 -0400 Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 17:59:15 +0100 From: Alasdair Kergon To: Linux Kernel Subject: [PATCH] device-mapper for 2.4 Message-ID: <20020627175915.A28682@uk.sistina.com> Mail-Followup-To: Linux Kernel Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1430 Lines: 40 An up-to-date device-mapper patchset against 2.4.19-rc1 has gone up today at: http://people.sistina.com/~thornber/ Please send feedback if you can think of ways to improve it - or even to break it:-) Device-mapper is a light-weight driver designed to support volume managers generically. It lets you define new block devices composed of ranges of sectors of existing devices. There are also patches to support snapshots and mirroring (LVM2 will use this to implement pvmove). ftp://ftp.sistina.com/pub/LVM2/device-mapper/patches/ linux-2.4.19-rc1-mempool.patch linux-2.4.19-rc1-mempool_slab.patch linux-2.4.19-rc1-vcalloc.patch linux-2.4.19-rc1-b_bdev_private.patch linux-2.4.19-rc1-config.patch linux-2.4.19-rc1-devmapper_1_core.patch linux-2.4.19-rc1-devmapper_2_ioctl.patch linux-2.4.19-rc1-devmapper_3_basic_mappings.patch linux-2.4.19-rc1-devmapper_4_snapshots.patch linux-2.4.19-rc1-devmapper_5_mirror.patch Single patch combining the above: combined-linux-2.4.19-rc1-devmapper-ioctl.patch Alasdair -- agk@uk.sistina.com UK Linux Developers' Conference 2002 July 4-7 Bristol www.ukuug.org - 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/