Messages in this thread | | | From | Dan Williams <> | Date | Thu, 16 Jan 2020 10:09:46 -0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 01/19] dax: remove block device dependencies |
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On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 1:08 PM Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> wrote: > > Hi, Dan, > > Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> writes: > > > I'm going to take a look at how hard it would be to develop a kpartx > > fallback in udev. If that can live across the driver transition then > > maybe this can be a non-event for end users that already have that > > udev update deployed. > > I just wanted to remind you that label-less dimms still exist, and are > still being shipped. For those devices, the only way to subdivide the > storage is via partitioning.
True, but if kpartx + udev can make this transparent then I don't think users lose any functionality. They just gain a device-mapper dependency.
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