Sorry for the noise.... but I was building without specifying that I wanted device-mapper suppoer. When I do a `./bootstrap ; ./configure --enable-device-mapper ; make ; make install` everything works fine. sorry for the noise.
This should just increase the justification posted on my response to the patch. regards. ----- "Bryn M. Reeves" <[email protected]> wrote: > Joel Granados wrote: > > In any case, parted, still, correctly creates the partition in the > LV. Proof of this is that I can execute the kpartx command, and it > will read and create the /dev/mapper/VolGrou00-lvp1 node for the > partition. > > ----- "Joel Granados" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> A little correction to my post, I tried the test with parted > (master) > >> and it seems to error out. "error informing the kernel" > > Did we try a BLKPG ioctl on it? Definitely we need parted to be able > to view and manipulate partitions on these types of devices. > > Whether we go as far as automatically notifying the kernel of changes > > (by whatever means is appropriate for the type of device), I am less > sure - it seems like a "nice to have", but there are some nasty > complications to deal with (e.g. differing conventions for naming > partitions on these devices exist). > > Regards, > Bryn. _______________________________________________ parted-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/parted-devel
