Re: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.6.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux

[<me@heyjay.com>]

Sorry for the delayed response.

I think I'm confused about device files and the relationship between device
files and partitions.  I'm going to have to go read some now...

Thanks
Jay
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Neil Brown" <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
To: <me@heyjay.com>
Cc: "Guy" <bugzilla@watkins-home.com>; <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2004 1:08 AM
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.6.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under
Linux


> On Friday June 4, me@heyjay.com wrote:
> > I did finish, but the example seemed to show that the --auto would build
the
> > partitions.  I know at the end of the message Neil said then you use
cfdisk
> > but it seemed unnecessary at that point
>
> Hmmm....
> I said:
>
> : If you do this, it will create device files:
> :
> :     /dev/md/XX   the whole array
> :     /dev/md/XX1  the first partition
> :     /dev/md/XX2  the second partition
> :     /dev/md/XX3  the third partition
> :     /dev/md/XX4  the fourth partition
>
> Meaning that it will create "device files" for the partitions, which
> is what I said.
> However I then said:
>
> : More (or less) partitions can be created using e.g. --auto=partition8
> : to create 8 partition device files.
>
> Which first says that "partitions" can be created, and then that
> "partition device files" will be created.
>
> So I clearly wasn't being precise as would be good, though I was
> trying :-)
>
> mdadm created device files (just like mknod does).  It does not create
> partitions - that is a job for *fdisk.
>
> NeilBrown
>
>
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