On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 05:11:56PM +0100, Luca Berra wrote: > On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 10:33:25AM -0500, Peter Jones wrote: > >On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 08:11 +0100, Luca Berra wrote: > >>On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 05:52:02PM -0500, Peter Jones wrote: > >>>It'd still be really nice to simply "turn off" physical partitions when > >>>we're using the full device in a device-map. > >> > >>wait, i tought device mapper used bd_claim on the component devices, > >>what am i missing? > > > >You're missing the failure case early in the boot sequence. If > >something goes wrong in making the dm device, it's hard to be *sure* > >nothing like "fsck -a" later goes and operates on one of the partitions. > I see. > > >If you could completely turn them off before creating the raid, it'd be > >almost totally guaranteed that they won't do this. Just rm-ing the > remove partition detection code from the kernel and use kpartx in an > initramfs after activating dmraid? Once we have that in distros, I'll be happily removing the DOS partition support in dmaraid. Heinz > > L. > > -- > Luca Berra -- bluca@xxxxxxxxxx > Communication Media & Services S.r.l. > /"\ > \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN > X AGAINST HTML MAIL > / \ > > _______________________________________________ > > Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Red Hat GmbH Consulting Development Engineer Am Sonnenhang 11 Cluster and Storage Development 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@xxxxxxxxxx +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list
