[parted-devel] [PATCH] Add support for Linux software RAID arrays (mdraid)

[Phillip Susi]

On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 08:58:23 -0600
Curtis Gedak <gedakc at gmail.com> wrote:

> Phillip Susi wrote:
> > MD devices do not contain partition tables.
> 
> I believe this used to be the case.  Now Linux Software RAID devices
> can contain partition tables.  See the "--auto" option for the mdadm
> command for details on how to create a partitionable array.

I thought that partitionable md devices had to be partitioned using
mdadm and it stored that information in its metadata block?  Are you
saying it actually uses an msdos partition table on the main device,
and understands the BLKRRPART and BLKPG ioctls?