[dm-devel] Re: ATARAID/FakeRAID/HPTRAID/PDCRAID as dm targets?

christophe varoqui christophe.varoqui at free.fr
Sun Mar 21 20:19:25 UTC 2004


>>>>- Would an EVMS plugin or a simple script calling dmsetup be the way to
>>>>go? If I go the dmsetup route, is there any chance to get partition
>>>>detection on top of the ATARAID for free (by calling another dm tool)?
>>>
>>>This was posted a while back; I don't know what the status of it being
>>>merged into util-linux is.
>>>
>>>http://lwn.net/Articles/13958/
> 
> Christophe V.: What is the currrent status of your work?
> 
It mutated into kpartx, as I ported the compilation to klibc.
It is functionaly unchanged since that LWN report.

I know it works for partitioned multipath devmaps, partitioned loops, 
partioned md ...

It needs more testing and a lot of integration thinking.

regards,
cvaroqui



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