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Status : open Priority : 1
Assigned Engineer : n8992 Submitter : mostek
*Modified User : nathans *Modified User Domain : engr
*Description :
The interactions between XFS and volume managers on Linux need to
be investigated, designed, and implemented.
This includes enhancing slinx-xfs/cmd/xfs/sim/src/libdisk.c to
also deal with volume managers.
i. Install LVM on a machine and integrate with XFS.
ii. Install/configure md on a machine and integrate with XFS.
iii. port xlv_get_subvolumes() to a more generic routine and
implement to handle multiple Linux volume managers.
iv. libdisk needs to:
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From: nathans@engr (BugWorks)
Date: Sep 11 2000 08:59:28PM
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Been asked on status of lvm and xfs user tools (mkfs) - here's the
last I heard on this from Martin ... I believe this is the current
status. Putting it here for posterity...
On Jul 25, 11:38am, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> Subject: Re: LVM vs. kiobuf I/O
>
> >> - mkfs support for querying LVM stripe size/width
> ...
> Nathan> Also, from what you say above, I take it mkfs is now going to
> Nathan> be linked with liblvm?
>
> ... Although liblvm is a part of the
> LVM package, it isn't designed to be a generic library. I've been
> doing all kinds of surgery to the include files etc., and I'm still
> unable to build binaries linked to liblvm outside the LVM tree.
>
> Right now I'm more concerned about getting the LVM kiobuf support
> running.
>
On Aug 1, 3:47pm, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> Subject: Re: LVM vs. kiobuf I/O
> ...
> [liblvm]
>
> Nathan> Does it go through the ioctl interface? perhaps you could
> Nathan> make the calls directly & bypass the library altogether?
>
> I can do it via ioctls, yes, but I'd end up reinventing a lot of the
> existing liblvm code.
>
> I'll consider it once the kiobuf support for LVM is complete.
>
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