Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 May 2003 18:49:12 -0400 | From | Chuck Ebbert <> | Subject | Re: partitions in meta devices |
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> No, it should not. And devfs, for once, has nothing to do with it. > RAID devices (md*) have _one_ (1) minor allocated to each. Consequently, > they could not be partitioned by any kernel - there is no device numbers > to be assigned to their partitions. > > > Could you please tell us which kernel version you're using? > > What would be much more interesting, which kernel are _you_ using > and what device numbers, in your experience, do these partitions get?
These patches appear to contain raid partitioning code of some sort:
http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/patches/linux-stable/
Only the first 16 md devices can be partitioned, though... major is 60, minors are 0-15 for md0, 16-31 for md1, etc.
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