[dm-devel] dm-ioband = smarter than me

[malahal at us.ibm.com]

Clint Moore [clint at blueboxgrp.com] wrote:
>
> On Apr 4, 2008, at 6:45 PM, malahal at us.ibm.com wrote:
>>
>> Don't you need to unmount first?
>
> 	I don't think that I missed that in the directions - do you have to do 
> that?  I just assumed that it didn't matter.  Still, I'm not sure how I 
> would do that to a root partition... unless you aren't supposed to use this 
> on one.

If you really want one on root device, do it before you mount the root
device and mount your ioband device as root device.

--Malahal.
PS: Try it on an umounted block device (or a loop device to see if it
works.)