Re: partitions

[David Chow <davidchow@shaolinmicro.com>]

Andries Brouwer wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 03:02:50PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
> 
> 
>>Basically, gendisks are crap.  Why on the earth they were created as
>>per-major objects instead of per-disk ones is a mistery, but whatever
>>reason it had, it had acted as serious source of mess.  For many years.
>>Right now I'm cleaning that mess up in 2.5 and I have nothing nice to
>>say about the bright guys responsible for its creation.  Sorry.
> 
> 
> [amused] Good to see that you now understand that permanent
> disk data is not stored in a struct block_device and that
> the way to removal of the arrays is nearly independent of
> struct block_device and instead dependent on a replacement
> of struct gendisk.
> 
> [berating] However, your annoyed words are not fair to Drew Eckhardt.
> Ten years ago, when he created struct gendisk, most of the problems
> you mention did not exist yet.

Thanks for advice, it seems there are no standard solutions right? It 
depends on what sort of device we are looking for... I think I rather 
concentrate on finding local partitioncs, ide or scsi. But the case of 
ide-floppy is in a gray area. I certainly don't want to make use of such 
slow disk.

regards,
David