From: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
To: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 16:32:48 +1100
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Subject: Re: [RFCI] How best to partition MD/raid devices in 2.6
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On Friday November 14, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote:
> 

Thanks for the comments.

> (3) is absolutely trivial - will take 10--30 lines in md.c.

Yes.  I've actually started working on that (clear some stuff up first
so it become even more trivial).  I was feeling uncomfortable about
the non-uniform interpretation of minor numbers.  I know the block
layer can handle it.  I'm wondering what I should expect of users
though :-)

NeilBrown
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