Re: ATARAID userspace configuration tool

From: Matt Domsch
Date: Tue Feb 10 2004 - 09:53:30 EST


On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 02:18:15PM +0000, Thomas Horsten wrote:
> - After I have used the DM (and possible MD for some RAID types) to map
> the ataraid devices, is there a way to remove the partitions from the
> underlying disks from the kernel?
> Detecting the partition table in userspace would fix this, but it's not
> planned before 2.7 and I don't think it is safe to leave the false
> partitions exposed.

partx, part of util-linux, can do this in userspace today.

Thanks,
Matt

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