From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Curtis Gedak Subject: Re: [dm-devel] What is the deal with the partition separator? Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 09:54:32 -0700 Message-ID: <4D5D52C8.3080706@gmail.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"; Format="flowed" 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: parted-devel-XbBxUvOt3X2LieD7tvxI8l/i77bcL1HB@public.gmane.org, device-mapper development , serge.hallyn-GeWIH/nMZzLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org, Phillip Susi , Debian LVM Team List-Id: dm-devel.ids On 11-02-17 08:13 AM, Hannes Reinecke wrote: > So whichever way you proceed, you should avoid using a naming scheme > which resembles the linux one. From my perspective as a maintainer of partitioning software it would be nice if given the device name and partition number I could easily determine the partition name. Unfortunately this is not easily done when there are deviations from the linux model ("insert a 'p' between the device name and the partition number when the device name ends in a number"). Each deviation from the linux partition naming model results in more code to handle the deviation, and a corresponding increased number of test cases to avoid errors. Regards, Curtis Gedak (Maintainer of GParted)