Call for testing: lvm2, dmsetup and friends

Kees Cook kees at ubuntu.com
Tue Feb 16 18:38:06 GMT 2010


Hi Ante,

On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 12:53:47PM +0100, Ante Karamatić wrote:
> On 13.02.2010 08:59, Kees Cook wrote:
> > I've been working on the lvm2 merge, which also merges devmapper into the
> > lvm2 package.  I have tested LVM non-root, LVM root, and limited cryptsetup
> > configurations.  I would like more testing, especially DM-RAID, which I
> > don't have hardware to test with.
> 
> I've tested clvm and found that it is compiled with support only for 
> cman. With current plans, cman will be demoted to universe and instead 
> of it new cluster stack could be promoted to main.
> 
> However, both libcorosync-dev and libopenais-dev are in main already. 
> Would it be possible to compile clvm with support for corosync and 
> openais, drop support for cman and drop (hard coded) cman binary 
> dependency for clvm? This change would be introduced once cman is 
> demoted and new versions of corosync and openais are uploaded (soon, 
> hopefully).

Sure; whatever makes the most sense for clvm.

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Ubuntu Security Team



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