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
