Re: support for partitioned linux md devices

[Bendtsen, Jon]

On 23/08/2012, at 09.58, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> I've also filed this as a debian bugreport,
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=684713
> 
> Linux md raid array devices come in two flavours: partionable
> (/dev/md_d0) and non-partitionable (/dev/md0). Or at least,
> that used to be the case, until kernel 2.6.28 where the two have
> been consolidated. Now all md devices can have partitions.
> 
> However, there is one minor oversight/bug in the kernel: the
> sysfs "range" key is still set to "1" for md devices. That means
> libparted thinks that it's not possible to partition that device,
> when in fact it is.



Which arguments are there for partitioning a software raid device?



JonB