Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 16 Jun 2007 00:11:02 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [patch 4/6] ps3: Disk Storage Driver |
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> That sounds like a good idea for my virtual I/O case on > Niagara too actually :-)
It was actually meant semi-seriously in that drivers/ata sits on top of the abstract parts of drivers/scsi which James keeps asking for someone to get split properly off and which would sort all these out.
> Another quirk I have to deal with is that under LDOMs you > can export full disks and also just slices. So I'll have > to get down into the partition machinery to support that > somehow.
If your slices don't fit the PC worldview you might want to look at dmraid and just use device mapper to handle them. It is a lot more flexible and we could actually bin all our partition code and use this but for back compatibility.
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