Re: Optionally-partitioned devices

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

On Tuesday, June 23 2009, David Lehman said:
> I'd like to get a better idea of the perceived usefulness of
> optionally-partitioned devices. There are two basic examples:
> 
>  - whole-disk filesystem, lvm pv, md component, &c (no partition table)
>  - partitioned md devices

People have asked for the former forever and I've always said no.  We're
probably in a better place to support it now and it would get rid of
some of the cases where people have set something up themselves (either
by hand or in some other tool) and then we don't "see" it

Jeremy