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
next prev parent 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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