Re: [PATCH 2/5] Add aix lvm partitions support files

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 09:27:54AM +0200, Philippe De Muyter wrote:
> AIX LVM permits to make "logical volumes" which are made of multiple slices
> of multiple disks.  The new code allows only access to the "logical volumes"
> which are made of one slice on the probed disk, a slice being a contiguous
> disk area.  The code also detects "logical volumes" made of multiple slices
> on the probed disk, but can not describe them to the partition layer, because
> the partition layer generic code does not support that.  When such
> non-contiguous "logical volumes" are detected, a diagnostic message is
> printed.

This very much screams like it should be implemented in the lvm2
userspace package using the dm kernel driver.

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