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

On Friday November 14, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote:

Thanks for the comments.

(3) is absolutely trivial - will take 10--30 lines in md.c.

Yes.  I've actually started working on that (clear some stuff up first
so it become even more trivial).  I was feeling uncomfortable about
the non-uniform interpretation of minor numbers.  I know the block
layer can handle it.  I'm wondering what I should expect of users
though :-)

NeilBrown