bug#15490: [PATCH] Refactor device canonicalization

2013-11-17 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 11/17/2013 09:51 PM, Phillip Susi wrote: > I had to revise this patch because it caused failures to update > the Gah, that was meant for the other bug. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Th

bug#15490: [PATCH] Refactor device canonicalization

2013-11-17 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I had to revise this patch because it caused failures to update the partition table when lower numbered partitions that had been added or removed overlapped with higher numbered partitions that had been removed or changed ( and not yet removed/change

bug#15490: [PATCH] Refactor device canonicalization

2013-09-29 Thread Phillip Susi
Previous attempts to use the correct name for device-mapper devices on linux simply bypassed canonicalizing the given name if it started with "/dev/mapper". This gave the correct name ( as opposed to following the symlink in /dev/mapper to /dev/dm-X ), but only when the given name was the /dev/map