From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joel Becker Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 19:28:27 +0000 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] udev 0.1 release Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 11:31:28AM -0700, Kevin P. Fleming wrote: > - if any partitions are found, they are registered with the kernel using > device-mapper ioctls > - because these new "mapped sections" of the drive are _also_ usable block > devices in their own right, they generate hotplug events In reality, we need /dev/disk0 for disks, and /dev/part0 for partitions, and /dev/lv0 for logical volumes from the LVM. There's going to be a war over this naming, and that's why this is hard. Joel -- "And yet I fight, And yet I fight this battle all alone. No one to cry to; No place to call home." Joel Becker Senior Member of Technical Staff Oracle Corporation E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com Phone: (650) 506-8127 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The debugger for complex code. Debugging C/C++ programs can leave you feeling lost and disoriented. TotalView can help you find your way. Available on major UNIX and Linux platforms. Try it free. www.etnus.com _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel