[linux-lvm] Logical Volume file system
Heinz J . Mauelshagen
mauelshagen at sistina.com
Wed Jul 25 19:48:43 UTC 2001
On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 04:55:27PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously José Luis Domingo López wrote:
> > Does it mean that applications can use a LV as a "raw device" ?.
>
> There is no such as a `raw device'. A LV can be seen as a normal blockdevice
> from userland, just like a normal harddisk or disk slice.
>
> I think what you are referring to is `raw io', which is something you
> can do with any block device. Currently you still need a special rawio
> patch for Linux kernels, but it's a well tested and stable patch.
Wichert is right,
you need a patch for 2.2.
rawio is included in 2.4.
>
> Wichert.
>
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