Re: xfsprogs patch for evms

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 02:45:37PM -0500, Luciano Chavez wrote:
> Umm, where did you see O_NDELAY?

I meant O_NONBLOCK, sorry.

> Yes, evms does appear in /proc/devices. What dynamic major detection?
> Are you referring to the way device-mapper obtains major numbers? We
> only have one, 117.

I refer to the way of checking the major number that the actually running
kernel uses.  this is important for drivers such a dm or xvm that don't
have a static major but also helps other in case it e.g. acquires another
major number.

> Do you really want to fail mkfs.xfs if you can't get the stripe info?

is there any reason such an ioctl should fail for a valid evms configuration?
if no then yes, I want it to fail.  else we should just return 0.