On 2004-02-18T13:11:04, Joe Thornber <thornber@xxxxxxxxxx> said: > > Yes. I actually see no way around this, except to tap into a general > > 'emergency' memory pool. I thought there was something like it, but I > > forgot the name ;-) Doesn't pvmove use the same? > PF_MEMALLOC; At the moment this is used for both loading tables, and > making them active. Once the LVM tools start preloading properly, it > will only be used for the activation (resume) operation. Would this not be an option for a _carefully written_ user-space tester too? Sincerely, Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@xxxxxxx> -- High Availability & Clustering \ ever tried. ever failed. no matter. SUSE Labs | try again. fail again. fail better. Research & Development, SUSE LINUX AG \ -- Samuel Beckett