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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]