Frans Pop wrote: > On Saturday 06 September 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote: >> Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> On Friday 05 September 2008, Otavio Salvador wrote: >>>> It is indeed a change on libparted side however this is doing right >>>> using the p here. Would be too hard to change partman-dmraid to use >>>> it? >>> The problem is not really partman-dmraid. The problem is that dmraid >>> itself also does NOT use or expect the "p" and will for example >>> recreate the dm devices without "p" on a reboot (AFAIK, IIRC, IIUC). >> I've done a look on dmraid and it looks simple to change. The attached >> patch should do that. > > Oh, wow! Yes! > > Let's make a change that's really dmraid upstream's business in Debian > only. Let's do it at this stage of the release cycle, *and* let's do it > without giving *any* thought to issues it might cause for existing dmraid > users who upgrade from Etch to Lenny. > > Not to mention that this would require also updating partman-dmraid, > grub-installer and maybe hw-detect. > > Sounds like an excellent plan Otavio, really. > > The fact is that parted changed, and apparently did so without any > coordination with dmraid developers (and I also wonder about other > devicemapper usages). > Even if it's theoretically an improvement, such uncoordinated changes are > called "regressions" as they tend to break existing software/systems.
Frans: this sounds like you have a way better plan, so please speak up! Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
