From: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
To: "viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk"
<viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: partitions in meta devices
Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 18:49:12 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200305051851_MC3-1-3782-9001@compuserve.com> (raw)
> No, it should not. And devfs, for once, has nothing to do with it.
> RAID devices (md*) have _one_ (1) minor allocated to each. Consequently,
> they could not be partitioned by any kernel - there is no device numbers
> to be assigned to their partitions.
>
> > Could you please tell us which kernel version you're using?
>
> What would be much more interesting, which kernel are _you_ using
> and what device numbers, in your experience, do these partitions get?
These patches appear to contain raid partitioning code of some sort:
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/patches/linux-stable/
Only the first 16 md devices can be partitioned, though... major is 60,
minors are 0-15 for md0, 16-31 for md1, etc.
next reply other threads:[~2003-05-05 22:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-05 22:49 Chuck Ebbert [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-05-05 16:44 partitions in meta devices Ezra Nugroho
2003-05-05 16:39 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2003-05-05 16:57 ` Ezra Nugroho
2003-05-05 16:59 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2003-05-05 17:21 ` Ezra Nugroho
2003-05-05 19:16 ` viro
2003-05-05 19:57 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2003-05-05 21:38 ` Wakko Warner
2003-05-07 0:06 ` Neil Brown
2003-05-05 17:17 ` Bernd Schubert
2003-05-05 17:18 ` Jörn Engel
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