Re: LVM/Device mapper breaks with -mm (was: Re: 2.5.66-mm1)

From: Dave Jones (davej@codemonkey.org.uk)
Date: Thu Mar 27 2003 - 21:08:56 EST


On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 09:52:28PM +0100, Andries Brouwer wrote:

> For example, struct umsdos_ioctl has twice dev_t followed
> by padding. Probably these should become unsigned longs.
> I'll send a patch later tonight.
>
> Is it used anywhere? That requires detective work.
> It is used by the utilities udosctl (a useless demo utility),
> umssync and umssetup. I do not know of any others.
> No doubt people will tell me what I overlooked.
> Less conservative people will tell me that umsdos has to
> be killed entirely.

Isn't it still horribly broken ? I remember Al putting it on
the "To be fixed later" burner, but never saw anything happen
to it after that asides from janitor style fixes.

                Dave

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