Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 18:49:12 -0400
From: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Subject: Re: partitions in meta devices
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>       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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