From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.lst.de (verein.lst.de [213.95.11.210]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C9A4DDF1D for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:54:09 +1000 (EST) Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 07:53:58 +0200 From: Christoph Hellwig To: David Miller Subject: Re: [patch 4/6] ps3: Disk Storage Driver 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 In-Reply-To: <20070615.141917.85409547.davem@davemloft.net> Cc: 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, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , 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.