> This brings up a tangent point... partitions on top of RAID are a new > thing, which means that one has the chance to define the partition > format. > > And I kinda like EFI partition format, a lot better than the other > common ones... Any reason why the current partition-mapping code couldn't be extended to handle partition detection on a generic block device (which is what MD presents I think) instead of a struct gendisk? Then it wouldn't matter which scheme someone wanted to use - any scheme provided for in the kernel (or userspace if partx were extended) could be used. I'm partial to the EFI format too, but wouldn't want to write that code a second time, once for normal disks, and once for md. Thanks, Matt -- Matt Domsch Sr. Software Engineer, Lead Engineer Dell Linux Solutions www.dell.com/linux Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com - 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
