Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 May 2001 20:06:22 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] struct char_device |
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Alexander Viro wrote: > Do we really want a separate queue for each partition? I'd rather have > disk_struct created when driver sees the disk and list of partitions > (possibly represented by struct block_device) anchored in disk_struct > and populated by grok_partitions().
Alan recently straightened me out with "EVMS/LVM is partitions done right"
so... why not implement partitions as simply doing block remaps to the lower level device? That's what EVMS/LVM/md are doing already.
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