On Tuesday July 18, david@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > I think there's a bug here somewhere. I wonder/suspect that the > superblock should contain the fact that it's a partitioned/able md device? I've thought about that and am not in favour. I would rather just assume everything is partitionable - put CREATE auto=part in mdadm.conf If this causes problems, then those problems need to be identified and fixed. 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