On 3/19/2010 6:25 AM, Kay Sievers wrote: > The in-kernel parser is just too dumb to recognize all sorts of common > metadata on the device which invalidate any possible partition table. > Like the kernel used to happily announce partition of a raid member, > which do not even exist on the device. Indeed. Currently Ubuntu seems to have dmraid remove the partitions the kernel detected on a raid member disk after the fact. It seems that the right thing to do would be to not detect them in the first place. > Regardless of all that, the default in-kernel partition table > handling, and the partition table parser code will not be replaced by > userspace. But it should be possible to delegate all that to > userspace, on systems which can handle that. This is not reliable > possible today. Why not? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
