Messages in this thread | | | From | Kyle Moffett <> | Subject | Re: Exporting which partitions to md-configure | Date | Mon, 30 Jan 2006 20:43:01 -0500 |
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On Jan 30, 2006, at 20:10, Neil Brown wrote: > On Monday January 30, hpa@zytor.com wrote: >> Any feeling how best to do that? My current thinking is to export >> a "flags" entry in addition to the current ones, presumably based >> on "struct parsed_partitions->parts[].flags" fs/partitions/ >> check.h), which seems to be what causes md_autodetect_dev() to be >> called. > > I think I would prefer a 'type' attribute in each partition that > records the 'type' from the partition table. This might be more > generally useful than just for md. Then your userspace code would > have to look for '253' and use just those partitions.
Well, for an MSDOS partition table, you would look for '253', for a Mac partition table you could look for something like 'Linux_RAID' or similar (just arbitrarily define some name beginning with the Linux_ prefix), etc. This means that the partition table type would need to be exposed as well (I don't know if it is already).
Cheers, Kyle Moffett
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