[linux-lvm] Re: [PATCH] 2.5 version of device mapper submission

[Joe Thornber]

On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 11:31:34AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Joe Thornber wrote:
> > 
> > The 2.5 port of device-mapper is available from:
> > 
> >    bk://device-mapper.bkbits.net/2.5-stable
> 
> Is it available in a form which everyone can access?

http://people.sistina.com/~thornber/dm_2002-10-09.tar.bz2

> What I really wanted to know is "are you still using kiobufs"?

What I just submitted doesn't include the snapshot target as yet, I
want people to focus on the dm core rather than getting side tracked
by one of the targets.

> If so, what do we need to do to not do that?

For the last few months all snapshot io has been going through kcopyd,
*except* the snapshot metadata update (which did use a kiobuf).  I
have a patch which sends the metadata through kcopyd in the works, so
when I submit the snapshot target it will not use a kiobuf - I'm no
fan of kiobufs.

- Joe