Re: partitions in meta devices

Chuck Ebbert (76306.1226@compuserve.com)
Mon, 5 May 2003 18:49:12 -0400


> 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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