Re: New mailing list for 2.6 Medley RAID (Silicon Image 3112 etc.)BIOS RAID development

From: Neil Brown
Date: Mon Feb 09 2004 - 17:42:01 EST


On Monday February 9, thomas@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> The only thing I don't like about this solution is that we are relying on
> both the md and dm framework. I can't see an easy way around this, since
> we need to parse the partition table on the RAID. If we just create a
> separate md device for each partition, the user won't be able to change
> the partition table.

2.6.3-rc1-mm1 supports partitioning of md arrays though a new major
number. I'm hopeful that this will get into 2.6.4 at least.

NeilBrown
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