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From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Lem <l3mming@iinet.net.au>
Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>, Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>,
	linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RAID5 producing fake partition table on single drive
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 18:42:04 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4509DABC.7040205@tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1157867968.3920.4.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Lem wrote:

>On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 13:55 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>
>  
>
>>May I belatedly say that this is sort-of a kernel issue, since 
>>/proc/partitions reflects invalid data? Perhaps a boot option like 
>>nopart=sda,sdb or similar would be in order?
>>    
>>
>
>Is this an argument to be passed to the kernel at boot time? It didn't
>work for me.
>

My suggestion was to Neil or other kernel maintainers. If they agree 
that this is worth fixing, the option could be added in the kernel. It 
isn't there now, I was soliciting responses on whether this was desirable.

Unfortunately I see no way to avoid data in the partition table 
location, which looks like a partition table, from being used.

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO TMR Associates, Inc
  Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979


  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-14 22:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-19 11:40 RAID5 producing fake partition table on single drive Lem
2006-08-21  7:35 ` Neil Brown
2006-08-21  8:03   ` Lem
2006-08-28  3:46     ` Neil Brown
2006-08-29  7:17       ` Lem
2006-08-21 22:47   ` Doug Ledford
2006-09-04 17:55     ` Bill Davidsen
2006-09-05 16:49       ` Luca Berra
2006-09-10  5:59       ` Lem
2006-09-14 22:42         ` Bill Davidsen [this message]
2006-09-15  7:51           ` Lem
2006-09-15  8:29             ` Luca Berra

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