On Wed, Jan 14 2015 at 7:16pm -0500, Dan Ehrenberg <dehrenberg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If a device is used as the root filesystem, it can't be built > off of devices which are within the root filesystem (just like > command line arguments to root=). For this reason, Linux has a > pseudo-filesystem for root= and md initialization based on the > function name_to_dev_t, which handles different ways of specifying > devices including PARTUUID and major:minor. > > This patch applies name_to_dev_t to dm initialization. Rather > than assuming that all things which are not major:minor are paths > in an already-mounted filesystem, this patch first attempts > name_to_dev_t and tries the filesystem as a fallback. What is all this talk of an already-mounted filesystem? dm_get_device() currently assumes either a major:minor or path to the block device is provided. Please be specific about what functionality this change enables that you cannot do without. -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
