On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 07:37:03PM -0400, David Allan wrote: > There are many naming conventions for partitions associated with a > block device. Some of the major ones are: > > /dev/foo -> /dev/foo1 > /dev/foo1 -> /dev/foo1p1 > /dev/mapper/foo -> /dev/mapper/foop1 > /dev/disk/by-path/foo -> /dev/disk/by-path/foo-part1 > > The universe of possible conventions isn't clear. Rather than trying > to understand all possible conventions, this patch divides devices > into two groups, device mapper devices and everything else. Device > mapper devices seem always to follow the convention of device -> > devicep1; everything else is canonicalized. > --- > src/Makefile.am | 9 +++++++-- > src/storage/parthelper.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- > 2 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) ACK, it may not be perfect, but it looks incrementally better than what we have now. Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://deltacloud.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list