Hi!
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.
I think it is possible, but it is nonstandard feature (Neil Brown maintains patches for 2.4)
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.
see Neil's patches at http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/patches/linux-stable/2.4.leading/2003-01-06:00/016MdPart http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/patches/linux-stable/2.4.leading/2003-01-06:00/017MdpMajor
David Haring
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