Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 22 May 2001 19:37:50 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] struct char_device |
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On Tue, 22 May 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Alan recently straightened me out with "EVMS/LVM is partitions done > right" > > so... why not implement partitions as simply doing block remaps to the > lower level device? That's what EVMS/LVM/md are doing already.
Because we still need the partitioning code for backwards compatibility. There's no way I'm going to use initrd to do partition setup with lvmtools etc.
Also, lvm and friends are _heavyweight_. The partitioning stuff should be _one_ add (and perhaps a range check) at bh submit time. None of this remapping crap. We don't need no steenking overhead for something we need to do anyway.
Linus
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