Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 Aug 2010 10:27:20 -0400 | From | "John Stoffel" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] genhd, efi: add efi partition metadata to hd_structs |
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>>>>> "Kay" == Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> writes:
Kay> On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 00:27, Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org> wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> wrote:
>>> Did you already test to put a lookup-call to the in-kernel mounter, if >>> we use some special partition table uuid identifier for root=? That >>> would be nice to see, if all that works as expected, and we can get to >>> the data we collect. >> >> Not yet, but I'd like to have it working there (and in my >> device-mapper target) as soon as possible. Hopefully, I'll have that >> done pretty soon and I'll repost the series inclusive of an init: >> change.
Kay> Nice.
>> Any preferences on the variable? I'll start with your example of >> PARTUUID=, but that follows the initramfs model (UUID=) and not the >> existing magic root devices (/dev/nfs, /dev/ram). >> /dev/by-part-uuid/XXX... doesn't seem super-friendly though :)
Kay> Yeah, this stuff does not really fit in to the path notation Kay> stuff, unless we use the udev-style link names, which some people Kay> like to avoid, and prefer some more abstract thing here.
Kay> We have UUID=, LABEL= for mount and fstab, I think PARTUUID=, Kay> PARTLABEL= matches this.
Ugh, why do we care whether a UUID refers to a disk or a partition? It should be unique no matter what, so just do /dev/uuid/XXXX and call it done.
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