Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261169AbUCUTqO (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Mar 2004 14:46:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261205AbUCUTqN (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Mar 2004 14:46:13 -0500 Received: from pop.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:25563 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261169AbUCUTqJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Mar 2004 14:46:09 -0500 X-Authenticated: #21910825 Message-ID: <405DF09C.9060804@gmx.net> Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 20:44:28 +0100 From: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030821 X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Kevin P. Fleming" CC: Jeff Garzik , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , Wilfried Weissmann , Device mapper devel list , Arjan van de Ven , Neil Brown , Thomas Horsten , Christophe Saout Subject: Re: ATARAID/FakeRAID/HPTRAID/PDCRAID as dm targets? References: <405C8B39.8080609@gmx.net> <405CAEC7.9080104@pobox.com> <405CFC85.70004@backtobasicsmgmt.com> <405DD9E2.4030308@pobox.com> <405DE18B.7090505@gmx.net> <405DE2B6.7060003@backtobasicsmgmt.com> In-Reply-To: <405DE2B6.7060003@backtobasicsmgmt.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.5.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1461 Lines: 42 Kevin P. Fleming wrote: > Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > >> - Would an EVMS plugin or a simple script calling dmsetup be the way to >> go? If I go the dmsetup route, is there any chance to get partition >> detection on top of the ATARAID for free (by calling another dm tool)? > > > This was posted a while back; I don't know what the status of it being > merged into util-linux is. > > http://lwn.net/Articles/13958/ The two links below mention the same problems of partitions over dm: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=107383495031133 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=107384987212233 And here two links for partitions over md: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=107401984323154 http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/11/13/182 And the patch to do partitions over md: http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/patches/linux-devel/2.5/2004-02-03:03/006MdPartition (Related to the problem mentioned earlier in this thread) Christophe Saout seems to already have some prototype to handle ATARAID devices in general: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=107652932411321 Now the question is: How do we fit all of this together? Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/