>> What is the communication between user space and kernel
>> that transports device identities?
> It doesn't change, the same symbolic names still work.
But today, unless you think of devfs or so, device identities
are not transported by symbolic names. They are given by
device numbers.
[Yes,
On Monday 21 May 2001 14:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> How about:
>
> # mkpart /dev/sda /dev/mypartition -o size=1024k,type=swap
> # ls /dev/mypartition
> basesizedevicetype
>
> Generally, we shouldn't care which order the kernel enumerates
> devices in o
On Monday 21 May 2001 10:14, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
> On 2001-05-19T16:25:47,
>
>Daniel Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > How about:
> >
> > # mkpart /dev/sda /dev/mypartition -o size=1024k,type=swap
> > # ls /dev/mypartition
> > base sizedevice type
> > # cat /dev/my
How about:
# mkpart /dev/sda /dev/mypartition -o size=1024k,type=swap
# ls /dev/mypartition
basesizedevicetype
Generally, we shouldn't care which order the kernel enumerates
devices in or which device number gets assigned internally. If we
did need
On 2001-05-19T16:25:47,
Daniel Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> How about:
>
> # mkpart /dev/sda /dev/mypartition -o size=1024k,type=swap
> # ls /dev/mypartition
> basesizedevice type
> # cat /dev/mypartition/size
> 1048576
> # cat /dev/mypartition/device
> /dev
On Saturday 19 May 2001 08:23, Ben LaHaise wrote:
> /dev/sda/offset=1024,limit=2048
> -> open a device that gives a view of sda at an
> offset of 1KB to 2KB
Whatever we end up with, can we express it in terms of base, size,
please?
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On Saturday 19 May 2001 13:37, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> For creating partitions you might want to do:
> cat 1024 2048 > /dev/sda/newpartition
How about:
# mkpart /dev/sda /dev/mypartition -o size=1024k,type=swap
# ls /dev/mypartition
base sizedevice type
# cat /dev/mypartit
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hmm. You know that I wrote this long ago?
Well, let's not get too hung up on the disk thing (yeah,
I started it...).
Ben's intent here is to *demonstrate* how argv-style
info can be passed into device nodes. It seems neat,
and nice.
We can also make use of a stron
Ben LaHaise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hey folks,
>
> The work-in-progress patch for-demonstration-purposes-only below consists
> of 3 major components, and is meant to start discussion about the future
> direction of device naming and its interaction block layer. The main
> motivations here
From: Ben LaHaise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
3. Userspace partition code proposal
Given the above two bits, here's a brief explaination of a
proposal to move management of the partitioning scheme into
userspace, along with portions of raid startup, lvm, uuid and
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