thanks for the hint! I applied all the md patches for my kernel (2.4.18). the compilation complained about __minor not to be member of the mddev structure, so replaced it by a __unit. apart from that patching and compiling was without problems. I tried to partition the device using fdisk, but in /var/log/messages I found fdisk(pid 1344) tried BLKRRPART ioctl on MD device. Should use MDP device. and md: fdisk(pid 2486) used obsolete MD ioctl, upgrade your software to use new ictls. so, partitioning did not work. my fdisk version is 2.11. should I use another tool for partitioning? who is responsible for making the device special files? TIA, arne On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Derek Vadala wrote: > On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Arne Wiebalck wrote: > > > is it possible to have partitions on a RAID device? > > > > [...] > > > > Anything I am missing here? > > You first need to patch your kernel so that the md driver and md devices > support partitioning. Check out > http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/patches/linux-stable/ for the patches. > > > --- > Derek Vadala, derek@cynicism.com, http://www.cynicism.com/~derek > ********************************************************************** Arne Wiebalck Kirchhoff Institute for Physics Technical Computer Science Schroederstr. 90 D-69120 Heidelberg e-mail: wiebalck@kip.uni-heidelberg.de Tel.: (+49) 6221/54-4362 web : http://www.kip.uni-heidelberg.de Fax.: (+49) 6221/54-4345 ********************************************************************** - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
