New patchballs are available here: http://people.sistina.com/~thornber/patches/2.5-stable/ Including a diff against 2.5.44-ac1. There are a lot of changes in here compared to the last release, however most of these are due to code refactoring rather than bug fixes. Highlights include: o) Make the changes recommended by Christoph Hellwig and others: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103462345119681&w=2 o) Add reference count to struct mapped_device, and struct dm_table. o) Hide the above two structs in their respective .c file o) Move all locking of struct mapped_device into dm.c (we can do this now because of the reference counting). o) Remove the name and uuid field from struct mapped device, these are really only used by the interface as a way of refering to devices. o) Nobody needs to lookup from kdev_t -> struct mapped_device, so remove that hash table (thanks to Al Viros recent bdev->bd_disk stuff). o) dm.c has no need of the dm-hash.c file any more, so merge dm-hash.c into dm-ioctl.c (the fs interface uses the dcache for lookups). There are still open issues that prevent things working perfectly: o) The gendisk hash table is getting confused when removing a device. eg, if I create 3 devices with minors (1, 2, 3). Then remove minor 2, get_gendisk will remove minor == 3. (Or I've done something really stupid). o) Splitting pages still doesn't work, this is a generic block layer thing rather than dm. In practise I can only trigger this with striped targets. So stick to linear targets for now. Filesystem interface to follow before the end of the week. - Joe _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
