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/