Followup to: <38EE3F9F.58C82CA0@timpanogas.com>
By author: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@timpanogas.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Probably, but this would mean putting more code into the 2.4 release. I
> looked at the partition stuff in genhd.c - it should go here -- except
> for one point. NWFS does not share the Unix limitation of "one
> partition - one file system tree". NetWare volumes stripe segments
> across multiple drives, and for some reason, this seems strange to
> Linux. Linux always seems to assume that
>
Have you considered using the md device or something similar as an
intermediate layer? That way you get a single linear descriptor
across all the partitions.
It's not that "Linux always seems to assume that..."; rather, far too
often it's that Linux doesn't do things the way you seem to expect
them too. You should have noticed that by now.
-hpa
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