Re: [lvm-devel] *** ANNOUNCEMENT *** LVM 0.9.1 beta5 available at www.sistina.com

On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 04:52:51AM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Peter Samuelson] > > > How often do you run MAKEDEV or vgscan? > > [Christoph Hellwig] > > On every bootup, _before_ doing mount -a > > A mere 'vgchange -ay' works fine for *my* boot processes. Is there a > particular

Re: [lvm-devel] *** ANNOUNCEMENT *** LVM 0.9.1 beta5 available at www.sistina.com

On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 10:12:25PM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Christoph Hellwig] > > It would be really good to have something devfs-like just for LVM in > > setups that don't use LVM, so we could avoid mounting root read/write > ^^^devfs? Yes... > > for

Re: [lvm-devel] *** ANNOUNCEMENT *** LVM 0.9.1 beta5 available at www.sistina.com

On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 10:12:25PM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: [Christoph Hellwig] It would be really good to have something devfs-like just for LVM in setups that don't use LVM, so we could avoid mounting root read/write ^^^devfs? Yes... for device-creation.

Re: [lvm-devel] *** ANNOUNCEMENT *** LVM 0.9.1 beta5 available at www.sistina.com

On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 04:52:51AM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: [Peter Samuelson] How often do you run MAKEDEV or vgscan? [Christoph Hellwig] On every bootup, _before_ doing mount -a A mere 'vgchange -ay' works fine for *my* boot processes. Is there a particular reason to do

Re: [lvm-devel] *** ANNOUNCEMENT *** LVM 0.9.1 beta5 available at www.sistina.com

[Christoph Hellwig] > It would be really good to have something devfs-like just for LVM in > setups that don't use LVM, so we could avoid mounting root read/write ^^^devfs? > for device-creation. For most people, read/write access to /dev is rarely needed -- how often do

Re: [lvm-devel] *** ANNOUNCEMENT *** LVM 0.9.1 beta5 available at www.sistina.com

On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 02:49:17PM +1100, Richard Gooch wrote: > You definately can mknod(2) on devfs. [..] So then why don't we simply create the VG ourself with the right minor number and use it as we do without devfs? We'll still have a global 256 VG limit this way but that's not a minor

Re: [lvm-devel] *** ANNOUNCEMENT *** LVM 0.9.1 beta5 available at www.sistina.com

[LVM list removed so I don't get the nastygram] Andrea Arcangeli writes: > On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 02:49:17PM +1100, Richard Gooch wrote: > > You definately can mknod(2) on devfs. [..] > > So then why don't we simply create the VG ourself with the right > minor number and use it as we do without

Re: [lvm-devel] *** ANNOUNCEMENT *** LVM 0.9.1 beta5 available at www.sistina.com

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 02:49:17PM +1100, Richard Gooch wrote: >> You definately can mknod(2) on devfs. [..] > So then why don't we simply create the VG ourself with the right minor number > and use it as we do without devfs? We'll still have a global

Re: [lvm-devel] *** ANNOUNCEMENT *** LVM 0.9.1 beta5 available at www.sistina.com

In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 02:49:17PM +1100, Richard Gooch wrote: You definately can mknod(2) on devfs. [..] So then why don't we simply create the VG ourself with the right minor number and use it as we do without devfs? We'll still have a global 256 VG

Re: [lvm-devel] *** ANNOUNCEMENT *** LVM 0.9.1 beta5 available at www.sistina.com

[LVM list removed so I don't get the nastygram] Andrea Arcangeli writes: On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 02:49:17PM +1100, Richard Gooch wrote: You definately can mknod(2) on devfs. [..] So then why don't we simply create the VG ourself with the right minor number and use it as we do without

Re: [lvm-devel] *** ANNOUNCEMENT *** LVM 0.9.1 beta5 available at www.sistina.com

On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 02:49:17PM +1100, Richard Gooch wrote: You definately can mknod(2) on devfs. [..] So then why don't we simply create the VG ourself with the right minor number and use it as we do without devfs? We'll still have a global 256 VG limit this way but that's not a minor

Re: [lvm-devel] *** ANNOUNCEMENT *** LVM 0.9.1 beta5 available at www.sistina.com

[Christoph Hellwig] It would be really good to have something devfs-like just for LVM in setups that don't use LVM, so we could avoid mounting root read/write ^^^devfs? for device-creation. For most people, read/write access to /dev is rarely needed -- how often do

Re: [lvm-devel] *** ANNOUNCEMENT *** LVM 0.9.1 beta5 available at www.sistina.com

Andrea Arcangeli writes: > On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 05:31:25PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > The reason why the IOP was changed was because the VG_CREATE ioctl now > > depends on the vg_number in the supplied vg_t to determine which VG minor > > number to use. The old interface used the minor

Re: [lvm-devel] *** ANNOUNCEMENT *** LVM 0.9.1 beta5 available at www.sistina.com

On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 05:31:25PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote: > The reason why the IOP was changed was because the VG_CREATE ioctl now > depends on the vg_number in the supplied vg_t to determine which VG minor > number to use. The old interface used the minor number of the opened > device

Re: [lvm-devel] *** ANNOUNCEMENT *** LVM 0.9.1 beta5 available at www.sistina.com

Andrea writes: > On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 10:49:07PM +, Heinz Mauelshagen wrote: > > A change in the i/o protocoll version *forces* you to update > > the driver as well. > > I didn't had much time to look into beta5 yet but I can't see why you changed > the protocol to 11. There's no breakage

Re: [lvm-devel] *** ANNOUNCEMENT *** LVM 0.9.1 beta5 available at www.sistina.com

On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 10:49:07PM +, Heinz Mauelshagen wrote: > > Hi all, > > a tarball of the Linux Logical Volume Manager 0.9.1 Beta 5 is available now at > > > > for download (Follow the "LVM download page" link). > > This release fixes several bugs. >

Re: [lvm-devel] *** ANNOUNCEMENT *** LVM 0.9.1 beta5 available at www.sistina.com

On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 05:31:25PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote: The reason why the IOP was changed was because the VG_CREATE ioctl now depends on the vg_number in the supplied vg_t to determine which VG minor number to use. The old interface used the minor number of the opened device inode,

Re: [lvm-devel] *** ANNOUNCEMENT *** LVM 0.9.1 beta5 available at www.sistina.com

Andrea Arcangeli writes: On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 05:31:25PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote: The reason why the IOP was changed was because the VG_CREATE ioctl now depends on the vg_number in the supplied vg_t to determine which VG minor number to use. The old interface used the minor number

Re: [lvm-devel] *** ANNOUNCEMENT *** LVM 0.9.1 beta5 available at www.sistina.com

On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 10:49:07PM +, Heinz Mauelshagen wrote: Hi all, a tarball of the Linux Logical Volume Manager 0.9.1 Beta 5 is available now at http://www.sistina.com/ for download (Follow the "LVM download page" link). This release fixes several bugs. See the

Re: [lvm-devel] *** ANNOUNCEMENT *** LVM 0.9.1 beta5 available at www.sistina.com

Andrea writes: On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 10:49:07PM +, Heinz Mauelshagen wrote: A change in the i/o protocoll version *forces* you to update the driver as well. I didn't had much time to look into beta5 yet but I can't see why you changed the protocol to 11. There's no breakage between