Sorry for the delayed response. I think I'm confused about device files and the relationship between device files and partitions. I'm going to have to go read some now... Thanks Jay ----- Original Message ----- From: "Neil Brown" <neilb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <me@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Guy" <bugzilla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, June 05, 2004 1:08 AM Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 1.6.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux > On Friday June 4, me@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > I did finish, but the example seemed to show that the --auto would build the > > partitions. I know at the end of the message Neil said then you use cfdisk > > but it seemed unnecessary at that point > > Hmmm.... > I said: > > : If you do this, it will create device files: > : > : /dev/md/XX the whole array > : /dev/md/XX1 the first partition > : /dev/md/XX2 the second partition > : /dev/md/XX3 the third partition > : /dev/md/XX4 the fourth partition > > Meaning that it will create "device files" for the partitions, which > is what I said. > However I then said: > > : More (or less) partitions can be created using e.g. --auto=partition8 > : to create 8 partition device files. > > Which first says that "partitions" can be created, and then that > "partition device files" will be created. > > So I clearly wasn't being precise as would be good, though I was > trying :-) > > mdadm created device files (just like mknod does). It does not create > partitions - that is a job for *fdisk. > > NeilBrown > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
