On 11-02-16 12:33 PM, Phillip Susi wrote:
On 2/16/2011 12:19 PM, Curtis Gedak wrote:
Only newer versions of (lib)parted which link with the dmraid library
work this way with dmraid devices. In this situation it is the dmraid
library that is coming up with the device names. For all other devices,
(lib)parted uses the "linux scheme since the dawn of time" mentioned
below. Older versions of (lib)parted follow the "linux scheme since the
dawn of time".
(lib)parted does not link to dmraid; it contains its own code to
generate the name by always adding the 'p' in libparted/arch/linux.c.
My bad. (lib)parted does not link with dmraid. It has been a while
since I looked deeply into the libparted code.
I do know that the current version of parted in git has a
"--enable-device-mapper" option for configure that is enabled by default.
http://git.debian.org/?p=parted/parted.git;a=blob;f=configure.ac;h=25960a74abe909f7b11580aa053c0689a966820d;hb=HEAD#l81
The function _device_get_part_path in libparted/arc/linux.c, does appear
to always insert a 'p' for devices such as PED_DEVICE_DM and
PED_DEVICE_ATARAID.
http://git.debian.org/?p=parted/parted.git;a=blob;f=libparted/arch/linux.c;h=0288a150769298b92f06d96f8515f96bc27066ea;hb=HEAD#l2198
Regarding the GParted code, it has been written to will work with dmraid
devices regardless of whether the "--enable-device-mapper" configure
option is enabled or disabled.
GParted uses (lib)parted to come up with device names, except in the
case of dmraid devices. Because dmraid does not follow the "linux
scheme since the dawn of time", gparted calls dmraid directly to create
names following the old dmraid standard (only append partition number to
device name). If kpartx is available, then GParted will call kpartx to
ensure that dmraid device names follow the "linux scheme since the dawn
of time". This behaviour enables GParted to work with all versions of
dmraid, and maintain compatibility with (lib)parted versions 1.7.1 and
higher.
It shouldn't be using both dmraid and kpartx to create the partition
devices. If dmraid does it, then calling kpartx at best does nothing,
and at worst creates duplicate devices.
It would be easy in GParted to not call kpartx at all. This is in the
code to try to follow the normal partition naming standards for GNU/Linux.
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