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diff --git a/package/lvm2/Config.in b/package/lvm2/Config.in index 75f3f5079..30af14e69 100644 --- a/package/lvm2/Config.in +++ b/package/lvm2/Config.in @@ -1,7 +1,25 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_LVM2 - bool "lvm2" - select BR2_PACKAGE_DM + bool "lvm2 & device mapper" + depends on BR2_LARGEFILE help - LVM2 refers to a new userspace toolset that provide logical - volume management facilities on linux. It is reasonably backwards- - compatible with the original LVM toolset. + This is LVM2, the rewrite of The Linux Logical Volume Manager. + LVM supports enterprise level volume management of disk and disk + subsystems by grouping arbitrary disks into volume groups. The total + capacity of volume groups can be allocated to logical volumes, which + are accessed as regular block devices. + + The Linux Kernel Device Mapper is the LVM + (Linux Logical Volume Management) Team's implementation of a + minimalistic kernel-space driver that handles volume management, + while keeping knowledge of the underlying device layout in + user-space. This makes it useful for not only LVM, but EVMS, + software raid, and other drivers that create "virtual" block devices. + +config BR2_PACKAGE_LVM2_DMSETUP_ONLY + bool "install dmsetup only" + depends on BR2_PACKAGE_LVM2 + help + Install dmsetup only and skip the LVM2 suite. + +comment "lvm2 requires a toolchain with LARGEFILE support" + depends on !BR2_LARGEFILE |