YAY!!! :) I will try asap. :-D I will also try with qla2200's and see if I can break it! :) On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 05:25, Joe Thornber wrote: > 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/ _______________________________________________ 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/
