Since noone has answered my last question yet:
Has anyone ever used partitions on a md device? It is possible to make them with fdisk, and fdisk shows their names as /dev/md0p1 (eg.). They are also shown in the partition table. But there are no /dev entries.
There are very few google hits, but no successful tries are documented.
Is this functionality implemented yet? I do not understand much C, so I gave up on understanding md.c in the kernel source tree. In the up-to-date list of major and minor numbers, there are no entries concerning partitions on md devices.
I think Neil Brown stated somewhere on this list that there could be up to 15 partitions for up to 16 md devices, but I don´t remember, couldn´t find it, and I don´t know wether he told how to make the devices or mount those partitions.
I am willing to test if this functionality exists, if not, I am forced to partition the underlying drives.
Thank you for the help, Norman Schmidt.
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Norman Schmidt Institut fuer Physikal. u. Theoret. Chemie Dipl.-Chem. Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet schmidt@naa.net Erlangen-Nuernberg
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