Andi,
I am going to implement it with the gendisk_head method Stephen
suggest. At least this will let me get it out there working on all the
Linux kernels.
Jeff
Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> On Sat, Apr 01, 2000 at 11:14:03PM +0200, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> >
> > Andi,
> >
> > I agree with everything except the part about scanning in user space. I
> > have to do this in the NT version, and it's akward to handle.
>
> There is really not much alternative to it when you want to
> support Linux software RAID, Linux LVM or some advanced distribution
> kernel setups (that use kmod to load drivers dynamically). Both RAID
> and LVM require user space tools to run first before you can access
> their block devices. You at least need to add a way to force a rescan
> of disks later (after bootup). Doing it in user space is more flexible
> and serves the Unix philosophy of putting ``mechanism not policy''
> into the kernel well.
>
> -Andi
>
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