From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>, klibc list <klibc@zytor.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Exporting which partitions to md-configure
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 17:45:59 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43DEC157.1000002@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <859CB9D0-A1D3-4931-9D9F-96153D0F3E1B@mac.com>
Kyle Moffett wrote:
>
> Well, for an MSDOS partition table, you would look for '253', for a Mac
> partition table you could look for something like 'Linux_RAID' or
> similar (just arbitrarily define some name beginning with the Linux_
> prefix), etc. This means that the partition table type would need to
> be exposed as well (I don't know if it is already).
>
It's not, but perhaps exporting "format" and "type" as distinct
attributes is the way to go. The policy for which partitions to
consider would live entirely in kinit that way.
type would be format-specific; in EFI it's a UUID.
This, of course, is a bigger change, but it just might be worth it.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-31 1:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-31 0:52 Exporting which partitions to md-configure H. Peter Anvin
2006-01-31 1:10 ` Neil Brown
2006-01-31 1:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-01-31 2:01 ` Neil Brown
2006-01-31 2:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-02-06 1:46 ` Neil Brown
2006-02-06 3:29 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-02-07 2:47 ` [klibc] " H. Peter Anvin
2006-02-07 9:03 ` Neil Brown
2006-02-07 10:43 ` Luca Berra
2006-02-07 15:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-02-07 16:47 ` Luca Berra
2006-02-07 16:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-02-07 17:03 ` Luca Berra
2006-01-31 6:49 ` Chris Wedgwood
2006-01-31 1:43 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-01-31 1:45 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2006-01-31 2:01 ` Neil Brown
2006-01-31 2:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-01-31 6:42 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-01-31 3:21 ` [klibc] " Greg KH
2006-01-31 3:24 ` Greg KH
2006-01-31 6:53 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-01-31 3:53 ` H. Peter Anvin
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