On Mon, 17 Apr 2000 14:18:18 +0200, Luca Berra wrote:
> AFAIR there were a lot of places where add_partition is called with
> 0 as the last argument, should they all be changed ?
I haven't looked into all the other add_partition calls and I don't
know, if all partition-tables support types. I've just tested that for
OSF-partitions the fstype contains what is expected.
IMHO all add_partition calls where a partition-type is available
should be changed to make RAID autodetection working. But I'm not that
deep into kernel stuff to really decide that there are no
side-effects (so it's not my fault :-)).
I suspect that RAID autodetection is the only place where the
partition-type is really used. Otherwise this lack should have been
noticed before.
Ciao
Norbert
>
> L.
> On Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 12:29:39PM +0200, Norbert Eicker wrote:
> > So the following patch helped to make autodetection run on my system:
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > --- linux.orig/drivers/block/genhd.c Thu Apr 13 13:28:25 2000
> > +++ linux/drivers/block/genhd.c Mon Apr 17 12:12:19 2000
> > @@ -729,7 +729,7 @@
> > if (partition->p_size)
> > add_partition(hd, current_minor,
> > first_sector+partition->p_offset,
> > - partition->p_size, 0);
> > + partition->p_size, partition->p_fstype);
> > current_minor++;
> > }
> > printk("\n");
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
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> Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Communication Media & Services S.r.l.
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