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From: Emmanuel Florac <eflorac@intellique.com>
Subject: Re: Partitions on bcache devices
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 18:25:49 +0200
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Le Thu, 29 Sep 2016 17:38:38 +0200 (CEST)
Wido den Hollander <wido@42on.com> =C3=A9crivait:

> Yes, I'm sure. You can create the partitions, but they will not show
> up as devices which you can use due to a limitation in the bcache
> kernel driver.
>=20
> Patches [0] are out there to make this work, but they are not in
> bcache yet.
>=20
> Hence my thread if this support can be added.
>=20
> Wido
>=20
> [0]: https://yaple.net/2016/03/31/bcache-partitions-and-dkms/

Ah OK, it's because bcache driver only allocates one minor number to
the device... Could be done indeed.

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