From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Kyle Moffett <kyle@moffetthome.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Zachary Amsden <zamsden@redhat.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, axboe@kernel.dk, hch@infradead.org,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, Paul.Clements@steeleye.com,
tytso@mit.edu, miklos <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow userspace block device implementation
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:07:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090728200726.08baadca@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f73f7ab80907281136k2d7797bat2526d1798aba2f85@mail.gmail.com>
> That's not so much an argument against LVM as it is an argument for
> fixing those distro installer tools... Using device-mapper to map
> standard Linux partition-tables has the following benefits:
I'll add another one: If your disk blows up when you touch sector 0 you
can rescue it in Linux without hacking the kernel.
It doesn't mean you have to ditch partition processing out of the kernel,
merely to be able to turn it off for some devices. Actually removing it
would never be practical.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-28 19:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-27 9:57 Zachary Amsden
2009-07-27 12:56 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-07-27 13:25 ` Alan Cox
2009-07-27 19:46 ` Zachary Amsden
2009-07-27 20:24 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-07-27 21:02 ` Alan Cox
2009-07-28 1:21 ` Tejun Heo
2009-07-28 3:53 ` Zachary Amsden
2009-07-28 10:27 ` Alan Cox
2009-07-28 16:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-07-28 18:36 ` Kyle Moffett
2009-07-28 18:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-07-28 19:07 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2009-07-28 19:49 ` Andi Kleen
2009-07-28 20:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-07-28 21:09 ` Andi Kleen
2009-07-28 22:56 ` Theodore Tso
2009-08-07 18:08 ` Pavel Machek
2009-08-10 22:47 ` Zachary Amsden
2009-07-28 20:37 devzero
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