Re: [PATCH] SMP race in ext2 - metadata corruption.

[Alan Cox]

> Actually, the EVMS project does exactly this.  All I/O is done on a full
> disk basis, and essentially does block remapping for each partition.  This
> also solves the problem of cache inconsistency if accessing the parent
> device vs. accessing the partition.

Interesting. Can EVMS handle the partition labels used by the LVM layer - ie
could it replace it as well ?
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