From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 15:17:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 15:17:11 -0400 Received: from mail18.svr.pol.co.uk ([195.92.67.23]:35342 "EHLO mail18.svr.pol.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 9 Oct 2002 15:17:10 -0400 Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 19:44:45 +0100 To: Andrew Morton Cc: Linux Mailing List , linux-lvm@sistina.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5 version of device mapper submission Message-ID: <20021009184445.GA25733@fib011235813.fsnet.co.uk> References: <20021009181259.GA25050@fib011235813.fsnet.co.uk> <3DA47606.546A558E@digeo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3DA47606.546A558E@digeo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i From: Joe Thornber Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 11:31:34AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Joe Thornber wrote: > > > > The 2.5 port of device-mapper is available from: > > > > bk://device-mapper.bkbits.net/2.5-stable > > Is it available in a form which everyone can access? http://people.sistina.com/~thornber/dm_2002-10-09.tar.bz2 > What I really wanted to know is "are you still using kiobufs"? What I just submitted doesn't include the snapshot target as yet, I want people to focus on the dm core rather than getting side tracked by one of the targets. > If so, what do we need to do to not do that? For the last few months all snapshot io has been going through kcopyd, *except* the snapshot metadata update (which did use a kiobuf). I have a patch which sends the metadata through kcopyd in the works, so when I submit the snapshot target it will not use a kiobuf - I'm no fan of kiobufs. - Joe