[linux-lvm] Swap/DB devices
Heinz Mauelshagen
mauelsha at ez-darmstadt.telekom.de
Fri Apr 16 23:47:06 UTC 1999
>
> 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?).
>
On Fri, 16 Apr 1999 21:43:48 +0100 (BST), Stephen Tweedie
<sct at redhat.com> said:
>
> 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.
>
It's simply a matter of userland (lv_create_node() and friends in lvmlib)
to create the LVM 'raw' device specials.
Only regular buffer cached device specials are created up to 0.6.
Regards,
Heinz
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