Re: 2.6.3-mm1

[Joe Thornber]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 07:37:34AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Supporting metadata can be quite simple - e.g. a standard header on the first blocks that
> has a length and a number of records with unique IDs. And the kernel driver would need
> to skip over these headers.

The target already takes an offset into the device, so you have what you want.

- Joe
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