Darrick, that's what the t_group type is for. Is there a reason, why you couldn't use that as already down for Intel Software RAID (iswc.[ch]) and designed for other flavours such as DDF ? Regards, Heinz On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 05:21:19PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > Hi all, > > These are preliminary patches to modify dmraid so that we can have > multiple raid_dev structures per physical device. The DDF1 > specification allows for a disk to participate in multiple RAID arrays, > which is what is gained from these patches. They've been tested against > 2.6.16.19 + dmraid45 on Ubuntu 6.06, and seem to be pretty stable. At > this stage, I'm looking for comments about the code because it touches > core dmraid code and could (but shouldn't) break support for hardware > that I don't have. > > This first patch is a simple one that adds an operation to splice a > headless doubly-linked list into an existing headed list. The headless > lists are created in the second patch. > > --D > > Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Red Hat GmbH Consulting Development Engineer Am Sonnenhang 11 Storage Development 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@xxxxxxxxxx PHONE +49 171 7803392 FAX +49 2626 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ Ataraid-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ataraid-list