On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 11:23:39AM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 08:58:23 -0600
> Curtis Gedak <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Phillip Susi wrote:
> > > MD devices do not contain partition tables.
> > 
> > I believe this used to be the case.  Now Linux Software RAID devices
> > can contain partition tables.  See the "--auto" option for the mdadm
> > command for details on how to create a partitionable array.
> 
> I thought that partitionable md devices had to be partitioned using
> mdadm and it stored that information in its metadata block?  Are you
> saying it actually uses an msdos partition table on the main device,
> and understands the BLKRRPART and BLKPG ioctls?

Yes, it does.


Petr

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