[linux-lvm] Swap/DB devices

[Stephen C. Tweedie]

Hi,

On Thu, 15 Apr 1999 16:24:10 METDST, Heinz Mauelshagen
<mauelsha at ez-darmstadt.telekom.de> said:

> There is a raw device patch available by Stephen Tweedie.
> IIRC it will make it into the 2.3 kernel (what do you say Stephen?).

That's the plan; Linus has approved it in principle.

> LVM has to be enhanced a little bit to support that patch.

I'm curious: why?  I would have thought that LVM should support any
requests coming in through ll_rw_block already.

--Stephen