From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Haring Subject: Re: partitions on software-raid Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 22:29:56 +0100 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3FDF7954.9050805@billboard.cz> References: <3FDF285D.806@ratnet.stw.uni-erlangen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <3FDF285D.806@ratnet.stw.uni-erlangen.de> To: schmidt@naa.net Cc: linux-raid List-Id: linux-raid.ids Norman Schmidt wrote: > Hi! >=20 > Since noone has answered my last question yet: >=20 > Has anyone ever used partitions on a md device? It is possible to mak= e=20 > them with fdisk, and fdisk shows their names as /dev/md0p1 (eg.). The= y=20 > are also shown in the partition table. But there are no /dev entries. I think it is possible, but it is nonstandard feature (Neil Brown maintains patches for 2.4) > There are very few google hits, but no successful tries are documente= d. >=20 > Is this functionality implemented yet? I do not understand much C, so= I=20 > gave up on understanding md.c in the kernel source tree. In the=20 > up-to-date list of major and minor numbers, there are no entries=20 > concerning partitions on md devices. >=20 > I think Neil Brown stated somewhere on this list that there could be = up=20 > to 15 partitions for up to 16 md devices, but I don=B4t remember, cou= ldn=B4t=20 > find it, and I don=B4t know wether he told how to make the devices or= =20 > mount those partitions. see Neil's patches at http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/patches/linux-stable/2.4.leading/2003= -01-06:00/016MdPart http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/patches/linux-stable/2.4.leading/2003= -01-06:00/017MdpMajor David Haring - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html