Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Jan 2006 17:42:45 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Exporting which partitions to md-configure |
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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. >
What about non-DOS partitions?
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