On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 17:11 +0100, Luca Berra wrote: > Just rm-ing the remove partition detection code from the kernel and > use kpartx in an initramfs after activating dmraid? Well, on the one hand we probably do want to eventually think about disabling the *automatic* detection code in the kernel -- not so much for dmraid as for SAN use. But we probably still want e.g. "blockdev --rereadpt" to be there, even though that's not useful for dm-based block devs. As for kpartx, it's a good tool. I wish it used parted for the actual partition scanning, since parted already has support for a much wider variety of partition formats. In early boot on FC we're using some code I wrote for nash that basically reads the partition table with libparted and then just makes linear maps, essentially just like what kpartx does. (We tend to implement our own code in nash to do anything needed early in booting, because in the initrd we want to stay very small.) -- Peter _______________________________________________ Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list
