From 03bcf762232daecdffc25a3b479da0da57d0a1c1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nigel Kukard Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:54:14 +0000 Subject: LVM2 now provides device-mapper - Updated LVM2 to version 2.02.47 - Added option to only install dmsetup - Updated config description - thanks Olaf Rempel - Fixed readline issues - thanks Olaf Rempel Signed-off-by: Nigel Kukard Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard --- package/lvm2/Config.in | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'package/lvm2/Config.in') 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 -- cgit v1.2.3