Joe, I haven't kept up. What is LVM's status relative to the 2.5 feature freeze that is coming up? TIA Greg Freemyer ===== >> 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/ Greg Freemyer Internet Engineer Deployment and Integration Specialist Compaq ASE - Tru64 v4, v5 Compaq Master ASE - SAN Architect The Norcross Group www.NorcrossGroup.com _______________________________________________ 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/
