From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: M K <maheshext3@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: raid on extended partitions
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 08:13:12 -0700 (PDT)
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--- Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> wrote:
> 
> What does
>    ls -l /dev/hd[eg]5
> show? How about
>    cat /proc/partitions
>    dd if=/dev/hde5 of=/dev/null bs=1024k

Thanks a lot, Neil, turns out those nodes were not
present. After I mknod'd them, all's fine in
RAIDland... 
  Quick question: does using extended partitions for
RAID affect performance?
Cheers,
Mahesh



	
		
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