From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Partitioned raid and major number
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 18:46:31 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c1iqi7$glv$1@terminus.zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20040225145624.GA1513@cistron.nl
Followup to: <20040225145624.GA1513@cistron.nl>
By author: Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.raid
>
> Hello,
>
> I see that Linus merged partitioned raid into bitkeeper.
> The major number of partitioned raid devices is allocated dynamically.
>
> I want to set up a server with 2 disks in RAID1 mode, partitioned.
> To be able to boot from it, the RAID1 device needs to have a fixed
> major number (I don't want to be forced to use an initrd). Is it
> planned to ask LANANA for a fixed major number? If not, would a
> patch to pass the major number on the kernel command line be accepted ?
>
Please ask <device@lanana.org> for a device number. Make sure to
specify if it's 2.6-specific (and hence will be assigned a number
above 255) or not.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-25 18:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-25 14:56 Partitioned raid and major number Miquel van Smoorenburg
2004-02-25 18:46 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2004-02-25 23:25 ` Neil Brown
2004-02-26 21:51 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2004-02-27 0:21 ` Neil Brown
2004-02-27 1:17 ` Neil Brown
2004-02-27 16:56 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2004-02-28 1:09 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2004-02-28 7:27 ` Luca Berra
2004-03-01 0:54 ` Neil Brown
2004-03-01 1:04 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2004-03-02 0:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-03-01 15:38 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2004-03-09 15:34 ` /dev/root (was: Re: Partitioned raid and major number) Miquel van Smoorenburg
2004-03-10 2:05 ` Neil Brown
2004-03-01 0:16 ` Partitioned raid and major number Neil Brown
2004-03-01 0:42 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2004-03-01 1:09 ` Neil Brown
2004-03-09 15:32 ` Creating partitionable raid on existing disk (was: Re: Partitioned raid and major number) Miquel van Smoorenburg
2004-03-10 2:41 ` Neil Brown
2004-03-09 16:46 ` Booting from partitioned raid, do_mounts_md.c patch " Miquel van Smoorenburg
2004-03-10 2:36 ` Neil Brown
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2004-02-26 23:01 Partitioned raid and major number Michael
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