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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: md extension to support booting from raid whole disks.
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:36:34 -0700
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To: Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>
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Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> 
> And how do you create a raid-1 partition on a whole disk raid?
> 

What you're asking for is a partitioning layer somehow hidden away
inside md.  This is about as intelligent as Dick Cheney.  We already
have partitioning layers, use them.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.