On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 04:52:34AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> lvm is mostly about the Linux specific formats. If you want to create
> a separate userspace consumer for device mapper that's probably also
> fine, but if you need support for complex layours device mapper is the
> way to go, an
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 12:58:52PM +0200, Philippe De Muyter wrote:
> > This very much screams like it should be implemented in the lvm2
> > userspace package using the dm kernel driver.
>
> Is lvm2 a generic tool for discovering foreign partition layouts, or it is
> about one linux-specific lvm i
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 06:04:52AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 09:27:54AM +0200, Philippe De Muyter wrote:
> > AIX LVM permits to make "logical volumes" which are made of multiple slices
> > of multiple disks. The new code allows only access to the "logical volumes"
>
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 09:27:54AM +0200, Philippe De Muyter wrote:
> AIX LVM permits to make "logical volumes" which are made of multiple slices
> of multiple disks. The new code allows only access to the "logical volumes"
> which are made of one slice on the probed disk, a slice being a contiguo
Hi Andrew,
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 04:39:27PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 23:18:30 +0200 Philippe De Muyter wrote:
>
> > adding partitions/aix.h and partitions/aix.c
> >
> > Partitions (called Logical Volumes in AIX) can be non-contiguous or
> > even split on more than one
On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 23:18:30 +0200 Philippe De Muyter wrote:
> adding partitions/aix.h and partitions/aix.c
>
> Partitions (called Logical Volumes in AIX) can be non-contiguous or
> even split on more than one disk. Altough we detect such partitions,
> we cannot describe them to the Linux parti
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 09:18:40AM +0200, Philippe De Muyter wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 09:08:40AM +0200, Philippe De Muyter wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 11:50:51PM +0200, Philippe De Muyter wrote:
> > > On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 01:40:41PM +0200, Philippe De Muyter wrote:
> > > > On Mon,
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 09:08:40AM +0200, Philippe De Muyter wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 11:50:51PM +0200, Philippe De Muyter wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 01:40:41PM +0200, Philippe De Muyter wrote:
> > > On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 11:37:56AM +0200, Karel Zak wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Philipp
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 11:50:51PM +0200, Philippe De Muyter wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 01:40:41PM +0200, Philippe De Muyter wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 11:37:56AM +0200, Karel Zak wrote:
> > >
> > > Philippe, do you have any disk image with AIX LVM? It would be nice to
> > > have a w
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 08:41:52AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 29 2013, Philippe De Muyter wrote:
> >
> > so sda is 8,0 and sdb is 8,16
> >
> > and if, while discovering partitions of /dev/sda, I try to make a
> > partition 16 or higher, it is silently discarded by 'put_partition'.
> >
On Mon, Apr 29 2013, Philippe De Muyter wrote:
> Hi Karel
>
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 02:36:51PM +0200, Karel Zak wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 01:40:41PM +0200, Philippe De Muyter wrote:
> > > > why not memset(pps_found, )? I also see magical constant 16
> > >
> > > Actually 16 is the m
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 01:40:41PM +0200, Philippe De Muyter wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 11:37:56AM +0200, Karel Zak wrote:
> >
> > Philippe, do you have any disk image with AIX LVM? It would be nice to
> > have a way how to test the code. I'd like to add support for AIX to
> > libblkid too.
adding partitions/aix.h and partitions/aix.c
Partitions (called Logical Volumes in AIX) can be non-contiguous or
even split on more than one disk. Altough we detect such partitions,
we cannot describe them to the Linux partitions layer, so we simply
discard them and issue a diagnose message.
Sig
Hi Karel
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 02:36:51PM +0200, Karel Zak wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 01:40:41PM +0200, Philippe De Muyter wrote:
> > > why not memset(pps_found, )? I also see magical constant 16
> >
> > Actually 16 is the maximum partition count allowed in a disk by linux,
> > or sho
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 01:40:41PM +0200, Philippe De Muyter wrote:
> > why not memset(pps_found, )? I also see magical constant 16
>
> Actually 16 is the maximum partition count allowed in a disk by linux,
> or should it be 15 ? Is there already a constant for that ?
> The AIX disk I tested
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 11:37:56AM +0200, Karel Zak wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 11:10:26PM +0200, Philippe De Muyter wrote:
Thanks for the interest and the quick reply.
> > +int aix_partition(struct parsed_partitions *state)
> > +{
> > + int ret = 0;
> > + Sector sect;
> > + unsigned c
On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 11:10:26PM +0200, Philippe De Muyter wrote:
> +int aix_partition(struct parsed_partitions *state)
> +{
> + int ret = 0;
> + Sector sect;
> + unsigned char *d;
> + u32 pp_bytes_size;
> + u32 pp_blocks_size = 0;
> + u32 vgda_sector = 0;
> + u32 vgda
adding partitions/aix.h and partitions/aix.c
Partitions (called Logical Volumes in AIX) can be non-contiguous or
even split on more than one disk. Altough we detect such partitions,
we cannot describe them to the Linux partitions layer, so we simply
discard them and issue a diagnose message.
Sig
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