[dm-devel] Re: [linux-lvm] Re: LVM on dmraid breakage
Luca Berra
bluca at comedia.it
Fri Aug 3 07:55:56 UTC 2007
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 11:45:53AM +0100, Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
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>Luca Berra wrote:
>> Two things come to mind
>> 1) dmraid should use ioctl BLKPG_DEL_PARTITION, to clean up any eventual
>> partition table on component devices
>>
>> 2) lvm tool filter could be modified to check if a device has been
>> already claimed by device-mapper.
>>
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>But device-mapper already opens devices exclusively when a target claims
>them.
No, it does not,
sorry
[root at localhost ~]# dmsetup create foobar
0 281329664 linear /dev/md2 0
[root at localhost ~]# dmsetup table
foobar: 0 281329664 linear 9:2 0
[root at localhost ~]# dmsetup create foobar1
0 281329664 linear /dev/md2 0
[root at localhost ~]# dmsetup create foobar2
0 281329664 linear /dev/md2 0
[root at localhost ~]# dmsetup create foobar2
0 281329664 linear /dev/md2 0
[root at localhost ~]# dmsetup table
foobar3: 0 281329664 linear 9:2 0
foobar2: 0 281329664 linear 9:2 0
foobar1: 0 281329664 linear 9:2 0
foobar: 0 281329664 linear 9:2 0
L.
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