[Linux-cluster] raw device

Lon Hohberger lhh at redhat.com
Fri Feb 18 17:50:40 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 20:33 +0200, Yazan Al-Sheyyab wrote:
> hi all,
> 
>   maybe i asked this question before So please execuse me about this.
> 
>  can i put more than one rawdevice in the same partition, i mean can i put
> in the /etc/sysconfig/rawdevices file more than one raw related with same
> partition as :
> 
>   /dev/raw/raw5 /dev/cciss/c0d0p3
>   /dev/raw/raw6 /dev/cciss/c0d0p3
>  .......... etc.

Yes, but that's a bad idea.

Furthermore, O_DIRECT has replaced raw devices.

-- Lon




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