> That sounds like a good idea for my virtual I/O case on > Niagara too actually :-) It was actually meant semi-seriously in that drivers/ata sits on top of the abstract parts of drivers/scsi which James keeps asking for someone to get split properly off and which would sort all these out. > Another quirk I have to deal with is that under LDOMs you > can export full disks and also just slices. So I'll have > to get down into the partition machinery to support that > somehow. If your slices don't fit the PC worldview you might want to look at dmraid and just use device mapper to handle them. It is a lot more flexible and we could actually bin all our partition code and use this but for back compatibility. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html