Re: Bug#770211: LUKS partition types, redux

[Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com>]

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On 11/23/2014 11:45 PM, Drake Wilson wrote:
> So---entirely aside from the _other_ subthread about types _inside_
> LUKS---do you still intend to provide this as a reason for not
> adding GPT/MBR LUKS types to fdisk, even in light of the
> destructive interaction I mentioned in my first post?  I'm worried
> that my having said anything else while replying to Dale may have
> been a mistake and given the impression that "no types inside LUKS"
> answers my original concern, which it doesn't.
> 
> As I mentioned, GPT and MBR have significant interop
> characteristics with other tools, so I'm not convinced by the
> "Linux only uses blkid" there.  If that's what you're truly going
> with after having seen the practical results, I won't argue
> further, but I'd like to know.

I have to say that adding more type codes for no reason is something
I'm against.  Like you said in your first post, the loss was caused by
a bug in debian-installer coupled with the lvm type code.  If you
simply use the normal "Linux" type code, then everything works out
fine so I don't see any reason to add more complexity and confusion by
introducing yet another type code.  Had the useless lvm type code
never been introduced in a similar manner, you wouldn't have had the
problem you did.


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