Submitter : mostek Status : open
Assigned Engineer : n8992 Priority : 1
*Modified Date : 09/12/00 *Modified User : mkp
*Modified User Domain : mkp.net *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: "martin k. petersen" <mkp@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sep 12 2000 06:45:04AM
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Nathan> 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.
Since our target changed a bit for beta, I'll attack the stripe
size/width extracting code again...
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Martin K. Petersen Cereal Bowl Engineer, Linuxcare, Inc.
http://mkp.net/ SGI XFS, Linux/PA-RISC, GNOME
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