Re: [linux-lvm] Logical Volume file system

[Wichert Akkerman <wichert cistron nl>]

Previously José Luis Domingo López wrote:
> Does it mean that applications can use a LV as a "raw device" ?.

There is no such as a `raw device'. A LV can be seen as a normal blockdevice
from userland, just like a normal harddisk or disk slice.

I think what you are referring to is `raw io', which is something you
can do with any block device. Currently you still need a special rawio
patch for Linux kernels, but it's a well tested and stable patch.

Wichert.

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