Hello,
I see that Linus merged partitioned raid into bitkeeper.
The major number of partitioned raid devices is allocated dynamically.
I want to set up a server with 2 disks in RAID1 mode, partitioned.
To be able to boot from it, the RAID1 device needs to have a fixed
major number (I don't want to be forced to use an initrd). Is it
planned to ask LANANA for a fixed major number? If not, would a
patch to pass the major number on the kernel command line be accepted ?
Thanks,
Mike.
Followup to: [off-list ref]
By author: Miquel van Smoorenburg [off-list ref]
In newsgroup: linux.dev.raid
Hello,
I see that Linus merged partitioned raid into bitkeeper.
The major number of partitioned raid devices is allocated dynamically.
I want to set up a server with 2 disks in RAID1 mode, partitioned.
To be able to boot from it, the RAID1 device needs to have a fixed
major number (I don't want to be forced to use an initrd). Is it
planned to ask LANANA for a fixed major number? If not, would a
patch to pass the major number on the kernel command line be accepted ?
Please ask [off-list ref] for a device number. Make sure to
specify if it's 2.6-specific (and hence will be assigned a number
above 255) or not.
-hpa