From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Phillip Susi Subject: Re: [dm-devel] What is the deal with the partition separator? Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 10:13:19 -0500 Message-ID: <4D5D3B0F.3050708@cfl.rr.com> References: <4D5B42BE.3050301@cfl.rr.com> <4D5B7ED9.20304@suse.de> <4D5C2793.1020601@cfl.rr.com> <4D5CCE75.5090202@suse.de> <4D5D375F.9070106@cfl.rr.com> <4D5D3B34.4000005@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4D5D3B34.4000005-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: parted-devel-bounces+gcgpd-parted-devel=m.gmane.org-XbBxUvOt3X2LieD7tvxI8l/i77bcL1HB@public.gmane.org Errors-To: parted-devel-bounces+gcgpd-parted-devel=m.gmane.org-XbBxUvOt3X2LieD7tvxI8l/i77bcL1HB@public.gmane.org To: Hannes Reinecke Cc: device-mapper development , serge.hallyn-GeWIH/nMZzLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org, parted-devel-XbBxUvOt3X2LieD7tvxI8l/i77bcL1HB@public.gmane.org, Debian LVM Team List-Id: dm-devel.ids On 2/17/2011 10:13 AM, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > Which is why you should call 'dmraid' with '-p' to avoid having it > creating partitions. > We'll be getting another event via udev, which then trigger kpartx > to create the partitons there. Except that won't work if you don't have kpartx installed, and also users tend to run dmraid directly and don't use -p to change its behavior. The same goes with kpartx. Everyone needs to get on the same page here and do away with -p switches to deviate from the standard behavior, or you run into possibly data corrupting problems. > Which was the reason why I chose the '-part' naming scheme; this way > it's pretty obvious that a new naming scheme is used. So any > objections for it not being compliant to the linux naming scheme are > immediately voided. Being VERY non compliant does not void objections that you aren't compliant.