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From: Christophe Varoqui <christophe.varoqui@free.fr>
Subject: Re: creating partition mappings with different delimiters
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 23:23:18 +0200
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Eddie Williams a =E9crit :
> I see it is kpartx that is defaulting to the 'p' as the delimiter (in
> the set_delimiter function) when the uuid ends with a digit and no
> delimiter when the uuid ends with a character.
>
> Wouldn't it be better to always use the same delimiter by default?  As
> it stands now one will not be able to determine that a node is a
> partition versus a full device by just looking at the name.=20
>
>  =20
This behaviour mimics the kernel partition naming policies : /dev/sd?=20
partitions have no separator, while /dev/cciss/c0d0 have one, for example=
.

kpartx once meant to be a true alternative to in-kernel partition=20
handling, thus cared about that naming compatibility.

I'm inclined to leave it that way, if not only to discourage people to=20
partition multipathed devices :)

Regards,
cvaroqui