[Wilfried.Weissmann@gmx.at: Bug#277534: hal: harddisk partition scan does not check harddisk size]

[David Zeuthen]

> Do I get this right? The kernel creates devices for your disk, which are
> not usable? Also the sysfs repreentation is invalid then? Then the
> kernel should be fixed, right?
> 

No, I don't think the kernel is at fault here. Look at software raid, I
can create /dev/md0 built from /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1

> Or is there any signature (any single byte or magic string) on the
> volume that indicates, that this is part of a raid set (similar to the
> linux-raid, which writes a magic at the end of the volume)?
> 

We should look for such signature yeah. Unfortunately I don't know what
they look like.

Cheers,
David


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