From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <199907121110.AA02186@mailgate1b.telekom.de> From: Heinz Mauelshagen Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] loopback support? Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 13:09:59 METDST In-Reply-To: <000501beca08$afa30c40$0102010a@adminstation.sgymsdam.nl>; from "Lennert Buytenhek" at Jul 9, 99 2:43 pm Sender: owner-linux-lvm Errors-To: owner-linux-lvm List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buytenh@dsv.nl Cc: mge@ts1.ez-darmstadt.telekom.de, linux-lvm@msede.com Hi Lennert, Support comes these days with upcoming LVM 0.7. Cheers, Heinz > Hi all, > > I know this question has been asked before (Mar 16), > but are there patches for making lvm work over the > loopback device? I need to do some testing of my > ext2 resizer on 2gig+ filesystems. All my partitions > together (including the DOS ones*) might just have > enough space free for this. I=B4ve tried some patching > lvm before, but I believe the lvm code thinks that p=B4s > in a device name are special in some way > (/dev/loo=B4p=B40 **). > > Thanks in advance, > > Lennert Buytenhek > > > * Yes, I know, and flames go to /dev/null. I have parents > and I can=B4t do much about it :-). And I=B4m getting tired of > this needing to defend myself. > > ** Is this related to the c0s0p0t0x0y0z0 stuff that devfs > is so fond of? > > > -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Systemmanagement C/S T-Nova Entwicklungszentrum Darmstadt Heinz Mauelshagen Otto-Roehm-Strasse 71c Senior Systems Engineer Postfach 10 05 41 64205 Darmstadt mge@ez-darmstadt.telekom.de Germany +49 6151 886-425 FAX-386 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-