partitions on software-raid

[Norman Schmidt <norman.schmidt@ratnet.stw.uni-erlangen.de>]

Hi!

Since noone has answered my last question yet:

Has anyone ever used partitions on a md device? It is possible to make 
them with fdisk, and fdisk shows their names as /dev/md0p1 (eg.). They 
are also shown in the partition table. But there are no /dev entries.

There are very few google hits, but no successful tries are documented.

Is this functionality implemented yet? I do not understand much C, so I 
gave up on understanding md.c in the kernel source tree. In the 
up-to-date list of major and minor numbers, there are no entries 
concerning partitions on md devices.

I think Neil Brown stated somewhere on this list that there could be up 
to 15 partitions for up to 16 md devices, but I don´t remember, couldn´t 
find it, and I don´t know wether he told how to make the devices or 
mount those partitions.

I am willing to test if this functionality exists, if not, I am forced 
to partition the underlying drives.

Thank you for the help, Norman Schmidt.

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Norman Schmidt          Institut fuer Physikal. u. Theoret. Chemie
Dipl.-Chem.             Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet
schmidt@naa.net         Erlangen-Nuernberg

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