>From mauelsha@EZ-Darmstadt.Telekom.de Sun Dec 19 15:20:20 1999 From: Heinz Mauelshagen Message-Id: <199912191420.PAA17627@u9etz.ez-darmstadt.telekom.de> Subject: PATCH: LOGICAL VOLUME MANAGER 0.8i vs 2.2.33 To: torvalds@transmeta.com Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 15:20:19 +0100 (MET) Cc: mge@EZ-Darmstadt.Telekom.de X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL47 (25)] Hi Linus, this is the Logical Volume Manager version 0.8i patch against Linux 2.3.33. The patch changes the following files for the mentioned reasons: CREDITS 8*) MAINTAINERS 8*) Documentation/Configure.help block device configuration support Documentation/LVM-HOWTO 8*) drivers/block/Config.in block device configuration support drivers/block/Makefile " drivers/block/README.lvm pointer to user space tools etc. drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c addition of remapping function pointer to the LVM driver (additional remarks below) drivers/block/lvm.c driver fs/partitions/check.c addition of function pointer to name generating function (/proc/partition support) include/linux/lvm.h driver header include/linux/major.h addition of driver majors kernel/ksyms.c addition of LVM function pointer variables I had to change ll_rw_block() to take care of changing device request queues in case MD or LVM remap a request to another queue (see comments there). Please include it and give me feedback. Thank you very much. Regards, Heinz BTW: additional LVM information and user space tools are available at .