From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [patch 4/6] ps3: Disk Storage Driver Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 07:53:58 +0200 Message-ID: <20070619055358.GD18542@lst.de> References: <1181918159.25228.543.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20070615171545.316dfac7@the-village.bc.nu> <20070615.141917.85409547.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.210]:36318 "EHLO mail.lst.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754255AbXFSFyd (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jun 2007 01:54:33 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070615.141917.85409547.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, axboe@kernel.dk, James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org, Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com, dwmw2@infradead.org On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 02:19:17PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > Another quirk I have to deal with is that under LDOMs you > can export full disks and also just slices. So I'll have > to get down into the partition machinery to support that > somehow. What's the problem with that? Partition machinery is perfectly fine with just getting a raw disk without a partition table, and it obviously doesn't care if the raw disk it sees is part of a partition on the storage server.