Re: [RFCI] How best to partition MD/raid devices in 2.6

[Matt Domsch]

> This brings up a tangent point...  partitions on top of RAID are a new
> thing, which means that one has the chance to define the partition
> format.
> 
> And I kinda like EFI partition format, a lot better than the other
> common ones...

Any reason why the current partition-mapping code couldn't be extended
to handle partition detection on a generic block device (which is what
MD presents I think) instead of a struct gendisk?  Then it wouldn't
matter which scheme someone wanted to use - any scheme provided for in
the kernel (or userspace if partx were extended) could be used.

I'm partial to the EFI format too, but wouldn't want to write that
code a second time, once for normal disks, and once for md.

Thanks,
Matt

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Matt Domsch
Sr. Software Engineer, Lead Engineer
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