On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 02:13:51AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Mark Lord wrote: > >This will also allow time for things like "udev" to perhaps think about > >an option to someday provide /dev/hd* symlinks for PATA devices when > >libata is used instead of IDE (?). That might be a possible migration > >path in the far future. > > Unfortunately a symlink won't work because of compatibility issues. > /dev/hd supports more partitions, and a different set of ioctls. Is there a dm-$partition.ko that assigns a bunch of dm-N devices per partition table entry? Or can all that be done from userland, parsing the on-disk partition table and create dm-N devices to access everything thats accessible now? - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
