[PATCH] Added --without-devmapper configuration option to eliminate the dependency in the kernel build to help keep overall size small for implementations that have limited space.

Stewart Smith stewart at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Oct 13 16:11:20 AEDT 2016


"Daniel C. Birkestrand" <dbirk at linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> +		[do not use devmapper, useful for reducing kernel
> dependencies [default=no]]

You'd want to be pretty sure before using this option though, as a "read
only" filesystem mount isn't truly read only, which is why we do the
device mapper stuff in the first place.

-- 
Stewart Smith
OPAL Architect, IBM.



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