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This patch fixes up brd's partitions scheme, now enjoying all worlds.
The MAIN fix here is that currently, if one fdisks some partitions,
a BAD bug will make all partitions point to the same start-end sector
ie: 0 - brd_size And an mkfs of any partition would trash the partition
table and the other partition.
Another fix is that "mount -U uuid" will not work if show_part was not
specified, because of the GENHD_FL_SUPPRESS_PARTITION_INFO flag.
We now always load without it and remove the show_part parameter.
[We remove Dmitry's new module-param part_show it is now always
show]
So NOW the logic goes like this:
* max_part - Just says how many minors to reserve between ramX
devices. In any way, there can be as many partition as requested.
If minors between devices ends, then dynamic 259-major ids will
be allocated on the fly.
The default is now max_part=1, which means all partitions devt(s)
will be from the dynamic (259) major-range.
(If persistent partition minors is needed use max_part=X)
For example with /dev/sdX max_part is hard coded 16.
* Creation of new devices on the fly still/always work:
mknod /path/devnod b 1 X
fdisk -l /path/devnod
Will create a new device if [X / max_part] was not already
created before. (Just as before)
partitions on the dynamically created device will work as well
Same logic applies with minors as with the pre-created ones.
TODO: dynamic grow of device size. So each device can have it's
own size.
CC: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org>
Tested-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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| aoe | ||
| drbd | ||
| mtip32xx | ||
| paride | ||
| rsxx | ||
| xen-blkback | ||
| zram | ||
| amiflop.c | ||
| ataflop.c | ||
| brd.c | ||
| cciss_cmd.h | ||
| cciss_scsi.c | ||
| cciss_scsi.h | ||
| cciss.c | ||
| cciss.h | ||
| cpqarray.c | ||
| cpqarray.h | ||
| cryptoloop.c | ||
| DAC960.c | ||
| DAC960.h | ||
| floppy.c | ||
| hd.c | ||
| ida_cmd.h | ||
| ida_ioctl.h | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| loop.c | ||
| loop.h | ||
| Makefile | ||
| mg_disk.c | ||
| nbd.c | ||
| null_blk.c | ||
| nvme-core.c | ||
| nvme-scsi.c | ||
| osdblk.c | ||
| pktcdvd.c | ||
| ps3disk.c | ||
| ps3vram.c | ||
| rbd_types.h | ||
| rbd.c | ||
| skd_main.c | ||
| skd_s1120.h | ||
| smart1,2.h | ||
| sunvdc.c | ||
| swim_asm.S | ||
| swim.c | ||
| swim3.c | ||
| sx8.c | ||
| umem.c | ||
| umem.h | ||
| virtio_blk.c | ||
| xen-blkfront.c | ||
| xsysace.c | ||
| z2ram.c | ||