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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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