From: Hubert Verstraete <hubskml@free.fr>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: MDP major registration
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:57:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47E92EE2.1080108@free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18408.36753.223347.129420@notabene.brown>
Neil Brown wrote:
> On Thursday March 13, hubskml@free.fr wrote:
>> Neil,
>>
>> What is the status of the major for the partitionable arrays ?
>
> automatically determined at runtime.
>
>> I see that it is 254, which is in the experimental section, according to
>> the official Linux device list (http://www.lanana.org/docs/device-list/).
>> Will there be an official registration ?
>
> No. Is there any need?
I got this question in mind when I saw that mkfs.xfs source code was
referring to the MD major to tune its parameters on an MD device, while
it ignores MDP devices.
If there were reasons to register MD, wouldn't they apply to MDP too ?
Regards,
Hubert
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-25 16:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-13 10:46 MDP major registration Hubert Verstraete
2008-03-25 5:37 ` Neil Brown
2008-03-25 16:57 ` Hubert Verstraete [this message]
2008-03-26 6:52 ` Luca Berra
2008-03-26 15:54 ` Bill Davidsen
2008-03-26 17:50 ` Hubert Verstraete
2008-03-26 18:45 ` [PATCH] XFS tuning on software RAID5 partitionable array; was: " Hubert Verstraete
2008-03-26 19:18 ` Bill Davidsen
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