On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 11:07 -0500, Peter Jones wrote: > It'd be better to not have the physical disk partition devices even > exist when we're trying to bring up a system with a dmraid. I've got a > patch to allow that, and I'm looking on getting it into the kernel (ours > and upstream's) now. > > The patch adds a block device ioctl BLKRMPARTS, which simply turns all > of the subdevices on a block device off. You can turn them back on with > BLKRRPART, which is exposed to sysadmins via "/sbin/blockdev > --rereadpt". I'll look at adding --rmparts to that utility as well. .. actually the patch may not be necessary, there's a way to remove individual partitions elsewhere in the kernel, and that may be usable. The functionality should probably still be added to /sbin/blockdev . -- Peter -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
