On Friday November 14, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote: > Thanks for the comments. > (3) is absolutely trivial - will take 10--30 lines in md.c. Yes. I've actually started working on that (clear some stuff up first so it become even more trivial). I was feeling uncomfortable about the non-uniform interpretation of minor numbers. I know the block layer can handle it. I'm wondering what I should expect of users though :-) 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