On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 20:46 +, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 03:00:41PM -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > I'm not sure we want to extend the udev database; in my view it's
> > supposed to be a small and efficient mechanism that allows one to
> > annotate directories in /sys w
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 03:00:41PM -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> I'm not sure we want to extend the udev database; in my view it's
> supposed to be a small and efficient mechanism that allows one to
> annotate directories in /sys with additional information that we collect
> in user space.
So we
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 09:20:55AM -0500, Dave Wysochanski wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-12-13 at 15:23 +, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 03:28:20PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > > On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 02:30, Dave Wysochanski
> > > wrote:
> > > > Note that by scanning a singl
On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 19:45 +, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> Remind me - why does udev want to know about 'target type'?
The question is not so much why "udev" wants to know about it. Keep in
mind that udev is just a mechanism (a database). FWIW, the consumers of
the information in the udev datab
On Sat, 2008-12-13 at 15:23 +, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 03:28:20PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 02:30, Dave Wysochanski wrote:
> > > Note that by scanning a single PV we may not be able to answer
> > > definitively what VG it is in or what LVs
Remind me - why does udev want to know about 'target type'?
Is it a hack so it can guess which program (lvm2, cryptsetup, multipath etc.)
is responsible for creating the device?
We introduced a standard prefix on the UUID for this purpose instead.
Next time we revise the ioctl interface it'll go
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 16:23, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 03:28:20PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
>> On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 02:30, Dave Wysochanski wrote:
>> > Note that by scanning a single PV we may not be able to answer
>> > definitively what VG it is in or what LVs it ma
On Sat, 2008-12-13 at 15:23 +, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 03:28:20PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 02:30, Dave Wysochanski wrote:
> > > Note that by scanning a single PV we may not be able to answer
> > > definitively what VG it is in or what LV
