On Monday January 30, mrmacman_g4@xxxxxxx wrote: > On Jan 30, 2006, at 20:10, Neil Brown wrote: > > On Monday January 30, hpa@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > >> Any feeling how best to do that? My current thinking is to export > >> a "flags" entry in addition to the current ones, presumably based > >> on "struct parsed_partitions->parts[].flags" fs/partitions/ > >> check.h), which seems to be what causes md_autodetect_dev() to be > >> called. > > > > I think I would prefer a 'type' attribute in each partition that > > records the 'type' from the partition table. This might be more > > generally useful than just for md. Then your userspace code would > > have to look for '253' and use just those partitions. > > Well, for an MSDOS partition table, you would look for '253', for a > Mac partition table you could look for something like 'Linux_RAID' or > similar (just arbitrarily define some name beginning with the Linux_ > prefix), etc. This means that the partition table type would need to > be exposed as well (I don't know if it is already). Mac partition tables doesn't currently support autodetect (as far as I can tell). Let's keep it that way. 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
