Re: New mailing list for 2.6 Medley RAID (Silicon Image 3112 etc.) BIOS RAID development

Neil Brown
2004-02-09T22:40:57Z

On Monday February 9, thomas@horsten.com wrote:
> The only thing I don't like about this solution is that we are relying on
> both the md and dm framework. I can't see an easy way around this, since
> we need to parse the partition table on the RAID. If we just create a
> separate md device for each partition, the user won't be able to change
> the partition table.

2.6.3-rc1-mm1 supports partitioning of md arrays though a new major
number. I'm hopeful that this will get into 2.6.4 at least.

NeilBrown