[dm-devel] creating partition mappings with different delimiters

[Eddie Williams]

I see it is kpartx that is defaulting to the 'p' as the delimiter (in
the set_delimiter function) when the uuid ends with a digit and no
delimiter when the uuid ends with a character.

Wouldn't it be better to always use the same delimiter by default?  As
it stands now one will not be able to determine that a node is a
partition versus a full device by just looking at the name. 

Eddie
On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 12:19 -0400, Eddie Williams wrote:
> Where/how does kpartx determine the default delimiter when creating the
> partition mappings and nodes?
> 
> With Red Hat EL 4 Update 3 during bootup the partition mappings are
> getting created in rc.sysinit.  However I find that some of the mappings
> have no delimiter while some have 'p' as the delimiter.  I prefer 'p' as
> the delimiter.
> 
> I have been unsuccessful at finding where kpartx (or is it dmsetup) is
> determining what delimiter to use.
> 
> Eddie
> 
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