Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 May 2013 06:04:52 -0400 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/5] Add aix lvm partitions support files |
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On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 09:27:54AM +0200, Philippe De Muyter wrote: > AIX LVM permits to make "logical volumes" which are made of multiple slices > of multiple disks. The new code allows only access to the "logical volumes" > which are made of one slice on the probed disk, a slice being a contiguous > disk area. The code also detects "logical volumes" made of multiple slices > on the probed disk, but can not describe them to the partition layer, because > the partition layer generic code does not support that. When such > non-contiguous "logical volumes" are detected, a diagnostic message is > printed.
This very much screams like it should be implemented in the lvm2 userspace package using the dm kernel driver.
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