Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 6 Sep 2000 07:41:54 +0200 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] devfs support for LVM |
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On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 04:41:26PM -0600, Richard Gooch wrote: > Christoph Hellwig writes: > > Hi Linus, > > I've updated my devfs for lvm patch to 2.4.0-test8pre. > > Here it is. > [...] > > + lvm_devfs_handle = devfs_register( > > + 0 , "lvm", 0, 0, LVM_CHAR_MAJOR, > > Does this really have to go into /dev rather than a subdirectory?
Yes. The userlevel tool can't handle other things without recompiling. I can't use /dev/lvm, too because this is the name of the control file without lvm (and the lvm tools will barf if this is a dircetory.
Christoph
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