Re: Exporting which partitions to md-configure

[H. Peter Anvin]

Neil Brown wrote:
> On Monday January 30, hpa@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > Any feeling how best to do that?  My current thinking is to export a 
> > "flags" entry in addition to the current ones, presumably based on 
> > "struct parsed_partitions->parts[].flags" (fs/partitions/check.h), which 
> > seems to be what causes md_autodetect_dev() to be called.
>
> I think I would prefer a 'type' attribute in each partition that
> records the 'type' from the partition table.  This might be more
> generally useful than just for md.
> Then your userspace code would have to look for '253' and use just
> those partitions.

What about non-DOS partitions?

	-hpa
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