Re: [PATCH] struct char_device

From: Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Date: Tue May 22 2001 - 19:14:05 EST

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On Tue, May 22 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> so... why not implement partitions as simply doing block remaps to the
> lower level device? That's what EVMS/LVM/md are doing already.

That is indeed the plan, having partitions simply being 'just another'
sector remap when submitting I/O

-- Jens Axboe

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