On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 01:52:37PM +0200, Milan Broz wrote:
> This requires kernel changes outside DM, like remove device name limit
> in partitioning code.
>
> - fix tools to "understand" the new names
> * long name in /sys limitation
* long name in /proc/partitions, we have many tools (fdisk,
sfdisk, blockdev, losetup, libblkid ...) where is
sscanf(line, " %d %d %llu %128[^\n ]", ...)
or less than 128 bytes ;-(
Karel
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