Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 Feb 2001 14:49:17 +1100 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: [lvm-devel] *** ANNOUNCEMENT *** LVM 0.9.1 beta5 available at www.sistina.com |
| |
Andrea Arcangeli writes: > On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 05:31:25PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > The reason why the IOP was changed was because the VG_CREATE ioctl now > > depends on the vg_number in the supplied vg_t to determine which VG minor > > number to use. The old interface used the minor number of the opened > > device inode, but for devfs the device inodes don't exist until the VG > > is created... If you run an older kernel with new tools, you can only > > use the first VG. > > Ah, I was reading the patch incidentally against 2.2 patch where devfs support > is not included, so I wasn't thinking the devfs way ;). Thanks for the > explanation. > > I assume it's not possible to mknod on top of devfs. So then we > could use a temporary device in /var/tmp or whatever for that. > However those workarounds tends to be ugly.
You definately can mknod(2) on devfs.
Regards,
Richard.... Permanent: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au Current: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca - 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/
| |