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

[<me@heyjay.com>]

Thanks David,

I think you and Neil are saying the same thing. I'm going to do some reading

Jay
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Greaves" <david@dgreaves.com>
To: <me@heyjay.com>
Cc: "Guy" <bugzilla@watkins-home.com>; <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2004 1:36 AM
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.6.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under
Linux


> I can see why you said that.
>
> my reading is that --auto *creates the major/minor numbers* by which the
> kernel recognises partitions.
> It doesn't create the partitions.
>
> I don't have an hdg, but if I did its partitions would be addressed like
so:
> david@ash:~$ ll /dev/hdg3
> brw-rw----    1 root     disk      34,   3 Apr 15  2001 /dev/hdg3
>
> I'd still need cfdisk et al to set the start/end blocks for the device.
>
> Maybe:
>
> --auto=partition creates the device files for partitions on the array
> which may then be manipulated as normal by cfdisk et al
>
> would be a good --help entry?
>
> David
>
> 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
> >
> >Jay
> >----- Original Message ----- 
> >From: "Guy" <bugzilla@watkins-home.com>
> >To: <me@heyjay.com>; <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
> >Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 9:21 AM
> >Subject: RE: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.6.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under
> >Linux
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>You must finish reading what Neil said!
> >>
> >>< Then
> >><    cfdisk /dev/md/XX
> >>< will allow you to partition the array.
> >>
> >>He has more info you somehow skipped!
> >>Re-read the email from Neil.
> >>
> >>
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org
> >>[mailto:linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of me@heyjay.com
> >>Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 9:31 AM
> >>To: Neil Brown; linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
> >>Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.6.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under
> >>Linux
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>The simplest way to access this functionality is with
> >>>
> >>>    mdadm --create /dev/md/XX --auto=partition --level= ....
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>How does in know how big to build the partitions?
> >>How does it know how many partitions?
> >>
> >>Can you do it with out building the partitions automatically
> >>and instead it will just build /dev/mdXX and then I can use
> >>fdisk, sdisk, cfdisk... to build my partitions?
> >>
> >>Thanks
> >>Jay
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