On Wednesday April 9, scw@seas.ucla.edu wrote: > Neil, > Thanks a lot, it raid did shutdown cleanly and restarted just fine, > looks like JFS isn't quite mature enough yet. > > With that in mind fiddling with fdisk implies that one can > subpartition a raid device, the FAQ doesn't seem to have any info, so > before we go and tear down what we already have. > > Does the md driver support partitions in a meaningful/useful way? Not without patches. If you look around http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/patches/linux-stable/ you should find a collection of patches. You particularly need MdPart and MdpMajor but they probably depend on most of the other Md or Raid patches in the set. With this, the first 16 md devices can each be partitioned into upto 15 partitions. You use major device '60' and minor devices: 0-15 for md0 15-31 for md1 etc. 60,0 is much the same as 9,0 60,1 is the first partition etc. There are no matching patches for 2.5 yet. I'm waiting to see what happens when the 32-bit device number stuff settles down. NeilBrown - 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
