From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alasdair G Kergon Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/3] dm: boot a mapped device without an initramfs Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 13:14:52 +0100 Message-ID: <20170504121452.GF4943@agk-dp.fab.redhat.com> References: <20170418164240.18079-1-enric.balletbo@collabora.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com Errors-To: dm-devel-bounces@redhat.com To: Enric Balletbo Serra Cc: Will Drewry , Kees Cook , Mike Snitzer , "linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" , David Zeuthen , LKML , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, dm-devel@redhat.com, Guenter Roeck , Enric Balletbo i Serra , Shaohua Li , Alasdair Kergon List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 01:18:41PM +0200, Enric Balletbo Serra wrote: > I'm wondering if a command line like this would be acceptable. 1) Make sure the implementation continues to support backslash quoting so that any characters you introduce with special meanings (comma, semi-colon, double-quote in that example) can still be used if required. 2) "none" is of course a valid uuid:) More comma-separation or re-ordering, perhaps? 3) Whatever final format is agreed here should be supported by dmsetup as well, so you can both supply the format to dmsetup and ask dmsetup to display your existing devices in this format. Choose a format that makes this easy. Alasdair