On Tue, 9 Apr 2002 17:24:54 -0400, Cory Snavely wrote: >Unless something with raidtools has drastically changed and I didn't notice, >there is no such thing as partitioning an md device. Instead, you'd >partition the disks themselves, and then create RAID 1s from those >partitions. > >E.g., instead of making hda1 and hdb1 into md0 and trying to partition md0, >partition hda and hdb in identical ways and then create RAID 1s md0, md1, >md2, etc.
I guess you're right since (apart from a patch that I've found) there's not a single pointer in Google that would lead me to a website explaining how this could be accomplished. To be honest I'm very disappointed about this (*put on asbestos underwear*) immature implementation. Suppose I have a HUGE RAID that I want to create two dozens of partitions on. That would mean I need to create physical partitions on ALL drives involved, and later combine them using raidtab. This is not exactly what I would have expected. Anyway, thanks for your comment. Here is the URL of the patch I've found: http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~neilb/patches/linux-stable/2.4.18/patch-m-MdPart I will, however, NOT be using this patch, since I don't know whether it will some day be part of the standard kernel or not, and I can't afford that some day I will be without a patch for the then-current kernel. -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
