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From: "Kevin P. Fleming" <kpfleming@cox.net>
To: Linux-raid maillist <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How to force raid to stop, cleanly? More info
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 11:33:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E94676E.7030301@cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200304091822.LAA16207@washington.seas.ucla.edu>

Stephen C Woods wrote:

>    Does the md driver support partitions in a meaningful/useful way?

No, the md driver (and many other block drivers in Linux) do not support 
partitions. Yes, you can use your tool of choice to put a partition 
table on the device, but it won't be used.

You can use LVM1/LVM2 to break up your md device into usable chunks 
(which is what I do).


  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-09 18:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-08 22:29 How to force raid to stop, cleanly? More info Stephen C Woods
2003-04-09  1:11 ` Neil Brown
2003-04-09  8:01   ` Luca Berra
2003-04-09 18:22   ` Stephen C Woods
2003-04-09 18:33     ` Kevin P. Fleming [this message]
2003-04-09 23:12     ` Neil Brown

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