Bug#684713: support for partitioned linux md devices

2012-08-24 Thread Jim Meyering
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: I've also filed this as a debian bugreport, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=684713 Linux md raid array devices come in two flavours: partionable (/dev/md_d0) and non-partitionable (/dev/md0). Or at least, that used to be the case, until kernel

Bug#684713: support for partitioned linux md devices

2012-08-24 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
On 24-08-12 9:01 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: However, there is one minor oversight/bug in the kernel: the sysfs range key is still set to 1 for md devices. That means libparted thinks that it's not possible to partition that device, when in fact it is. The attached patch reckognizes that situation:

Bug#684713: support for partitioned linux md devices

2012-08-24 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
Package: parted Version: 2.3-10 Severity: serious Tags: patch wheezy sid Background: I have added support to the debian installer for installation on Intel Matrix Raid (imsm) arrays as supported by mdadm (I'll be submitting patches to debian-boot soon). When installing on such an array,