From: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
To: Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Drake Wilson <drake@dasyatidae.net>,
util-linux@vger.kernel.org, 770211@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: LUKS partition types, redux
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 16:46:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141124154604.GA2610@x2.net.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <547343EA.6090606@ubuntu.com>
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 09:42:50AM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote:
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> On 11/24/2014 6:37 AM, Karel Zak wrote:
> > The current trend is to use partition type to define for what
> > purpose we want to use the partition (for example "this is /home")
> > independently on partition format.
>
> I wouldn't call this bone headed idea of redhat's a trend. Using
> partition table type codes to decide to auto mount in particular parts
> of the filesystem is such a brain damaged idea, those who thought it
> up need beaten with a clue-by-four and its use needs to be *strongly*
> discouraged.
well, it's designed for auto-generated fstab-less systems like
containers/virt images, etc. I'm not big fan of this feature, but for
some use cases it makes sense. (And it's systemd upstream decision.)
Anyway, use partition type for "usage" makes more sense than for "fs-type".
Karel
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Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
http://karelzak.blogspot.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-11-24 15:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-19 20:59 LUKS partition types, redux Drake Wilson
2014-11-19 22:24 ` Dale R. Worley
2014-11-19 22:37 ` Drake Wilson
2014-11-20 21:33 ` Dale R. Worley
2014-11-21 7:47 ` Milan Broz
2014-11-21 7:54 ` LUKS partition types, redux (wandering into the weeds) Drake Wilson
2014-11-20 16:43 ` Bug#770211: LUKS partition types, redux Phillip Susi
2014-11-24 4:45 ` Drake Wilson
2014-11-24 14:33 ` Phillip Susi
2014-11-24 14:37 ` Drake Wilson
2014-11-24 14:45 ` Phillip Susi
2014-11-24 14:48 ` Drake Wilson
2014-11-24 14:58 ` Phillip Susi
2014-11-24 15:04 ` Drake Wilson
2014-11-24 15:09 ` Phillip Susi
2014-11-24 16:10 ` Karel Zak
2014-11-24 16:27 ` Phillip Susi
2014-11-25 15:18 ` Dale R. Worley
2014-11-24 11:37 ` Karel Zak
2014-11-24 12:09 ` Drake Wilson
2014-11-24 14:42 ` Phillip Susi
2014-11-24 15:46 ` Karel Zak [this message]
2014-11-24 19:56 ` Bruce Dubbs
2014-11-25 11:26 ` Karel Zak
2014-11-25 15:36 ` Bruce Dubbs
2014-11-25 15:20 ` Dale R. Worley
2014-11-24 15:48 ` Dale R. Worley
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