[dm-devel] Re: dm: add topology support
Martin K. Petersen
mkp at mkp.net
Fri Jun 5 19:34:20 UTC 2009
>>>>> "Mike" == Mike Snitzer <snitzer at redhat.com> writes:
Mike> I followed your lead :)
Mike> http://mkp.net/code/topology/dm-topology.patch
I believe I pointed out that the patch was a proof of concept :)
Mike> I need to continue looking at this problem; particularly as it
Mike> relates to the LVM2 userspace's role in seeding the DM layer
Mike> appropriately.
*nod*
Mike> So I'm not yet seeing why alignment_offset _should_ matter as you
Mike> stack within DM (because of LVM2's role in accounting for it)
Mike> but...
If LVM2 userland takes care of alignment then the offset doesn't matter.
Without it, though, there's not much I can do in the stacking function.
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