From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265915AbUBJOwA (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Feb 2004 09:52:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265924AbUBJOwA (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Feb 2004 09:52:00 -0500 Received: from lists.us.dell.com ([143.166.224.162]:15247 "EHLO lists.us.dell.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265915AbUBJOv4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Feb 2004 09:51:56 -0500 Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 08:51:20 -0600 From: Matt Domsch To: Thomas Horsten Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ATARAID userspace configuration tool Message-ID: <20040210085120.A22710@lists.us.dell.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from thomas@horsten.com on Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 02:18:15PM +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 02:18:15PM +0000, Thomas Horsten wrote: > - After I have used the DM (and possible MD for some RAID types) to map > the ataraid devices, is there a way to remove the partitions from the > underlying disks from the kernel? > Detecting the partition table in userspace would fix this, but it's not > planned before 2.7 and I don't think it is safe to leave the false > partitions exposed. partx, part of util-linux, can do this in userspace today. Thanks, Matt -- Matt Domsch Sr. Software Engineer, Lead Engineer Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com