[linux-lvm] Re: [PATCH] 64 bit scsi read/write

[AJ Lewis]

On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 03:35:31AM -0400, Ben LaHaise wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, Ragnar Kjørstad wrote:
> > What do you mean?
> > Is it not feasible to fix this in LVM as well, or do you just not know
> > what needs to be done to LVM?
> 
> Fixing LVM is not on the radar of my priorities.  The code is sorely in
> need of a rewrite and violates several of the basic planning tenents that
> any good code in the block layer should follow.  Namely, it should have 1)
> planned on supporting 64 bit offsets, 2) never used multiplication,
> division or modulus on block numbers, and 3) don't allocate memory
> structures that are indexed by block numbers.  LVM failed on all three of
> these -- and this si just what I noticed in a quick 5 minute glance
> through the code.  Sorry, but LVM is obsolete by design.  It will continue
> to work on 32 bit block devices, but if you try to use it beyond that, it
> will fail.  That said, we'll have to make sure these failures are graceful
> and occur prior to the user having a chance at loosing any data.

So are these tenents written down somewhere, or is it just understood that
this is how it needs to be?

Getting LVM 64-bit ready is certainly a priority for the LVM team, but this
is the first I've seen of concrete requirements for doing so.  Of course, I
could just be blind and have missed everything too.  ;)

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