From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14733 invoked by alias); 18 Jun 2008 17:01:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 14725 invoked by uid 22791); 18 Jun 2008 17:01:26 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SUBJECT_FUZZY_TION X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from elasmtp-mealy.atl.sa.earthlink.net (HELO elasmtp-mealy.atl.sa.earthlink.net) (209.86.89.69) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:01:02 +0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=dk20050327; d=mindspring.com; b=fJyCSH72HNRsHqPgtIEThSlAwygINA08kaqrGri37KS/rEkq/ynP7Jajh3XVody1; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-ELNK-Trace:X-Originating-IP; Received: from [71.80.44.180] (helo=[192.168.0.5]) by elasmtp-mealy.atl.sa.earthlink.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1K911o-0007Ct-Tl; Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:01:01 -0400 Message-ID: <48593F4C.7000808@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:01:00 -0000 From: Frank Pagliughi User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20071019) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nick Garnett CC: ecos-devel@ecos.sourceware.org Subject: Re: Partition support for FAT file system References: <92187523-464B-4EFE-A03F-AA54E4AD3E6A@wh2.tu-dresden.de> <20080618095232.GA10893@lunn.ch> <38B53518-83B4-47A6-A64D-FC8266DB0602@wh2.tu-dresden.de> <20080618102248.GB10893@lunn.ch> <136E7846-7252-43D7-A7A4-02ED213ADFF8@wh2.tu-dresden.de> <48593730.1050600@mindspring.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: 4d82f965df0f6dd9e3f977c6d1ea408f0a9da525759e2654a6caa85368251c43fbfabc7b8f743f6aa26b888b88ba812a350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 71.80.44.180 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact ecos-devel-help@ecos.sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-devel-owner@ecos.sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-06/txt/msg00029.txt.bz2 Nick Garnett wrote: > Frank Pagliughi writes: > >> As a longer term enhancement, supporting multiple partitions would be >> nice, but ideas on how to resolve the devs/mtab idea of a disk to >> different partitions would be appreciated. >> > > > This is already handled in the io/disk package. You mount /dev/diskN/M > for partition M of disk N and /dev/diskN/0 for the whole disk. > > Partitioning is independent of filesystem type, so it must be done at > a lower level that the FATFS. > > Ah, ok, thanks, Nick. I misunderstood that terminology in the IDE case, mistaking it as 'N' for the controller and 'M' for the disk on that controller. This makes sense. So then it's the IDE driver that should scan the partition table on the physical disk and export separate mount points for each? Would that be the proper way to go? Frank