[dm-devel] kernel 2.6 biosraid via device mapper - partition support

[Wilfried Weissmann]

Don Mulvey wrote:
> Most every plug-in uses some kind of metadata and evms seldom makes it up.
> The dos plug-in uses MBR and EBR sectors for creating dos partitions.  It
> will also maintain os/2 drivelink-address-tables (dlats) if they are found.
> It didn't create any new metadata because it would not be compatible with
> any other dos partitioning utility like fdisk.  In short ... the MBR is LBA
> 0 and OS/2 dlats are the last sector of every MBR and EBR track.  An
> extended partition is specified in the MBR partition table and the very
> first sector of the extended partition (cyl alligned) will have an EBR that
> anchors the EBR chain ... and so forth.

i will install my testdisks and check it out as soon as possible.

> 
> -Don

thanks,
wilfried