From: Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>
To: The development of GNU GRUB <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Cc: michael.marineau@coreos.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Add new partition type API and convert GPT type checks.
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 23:19:57 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140922231957.18ebb350@opensuse.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1411412346-4003-1-git-send-email-michael.marineau@coreos.com>
В Mon, 22 Sep 2014 11:59:06 -0700
Michael Marineau <michael.marineau@coreos.com> пишет:
> This introduces a new type() function for partmaps modeled after the
> label() and uuid() functions for filesystems. A likely future extension
> will be support partition labels and uuids as well.
Is there other partition type beyond GPT that supports it? What
advantages it has over using filesystem label or uuid?
> This is in
> preparation for adding more functionality like a search.part_type
> command.
>
What is use case? search is expected to return a single object; but you
cannot presume uniqueness of partition of given type. That's different
from label or uuid.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-22 19:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-22 18:59 [RFC PATCH] Add new partition type API and convert GPT type checks Michael Marineau
2014-09-22 19:19 ` Andrei Borzenkov [this message]
2014-09-22 20:03 ` Michael Marineau
2014-09-22 23:06 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2014-09-22 23:49 ` Michael Marineau
2014-09-23 17:27 ` Andrei Borzenkov
2014-09-22 23:04 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2014-09-23 0:25 ` Michael Marineau
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