From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hubert Verstraete Subject: Re: MDP major registration Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:57:06 +0100 Message-ID: <47E92EE2.1080108@free.fr> References: <47D90614.9040206@free.fr> <18408.36753.223347.129420@notabene.brown> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <18408.36753.223347.129420@notabene.brown> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Neil Brown Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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