From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Subject: Re: Partitioned raid and major number
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 18:46:31 +0000 (UTC)
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By author:    Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl>
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>
> 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