Re: Bug#381150: still not able to handle partitionable arrays

[Robert Millan]

On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 09:03:48PM +0200, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> On Saturday 05 May 2007 01:29, Robert Millan wrote:
> > It seems there are problems with accessing software RAID in devices with
> > pathnames like /dev/md_d0p1
> 
> Is there any specification about device names on Linux? I have been seeing 
> Linux adding more and more new inconsistent device names for years, and it 
> seems to be no end in this game.

Not that I know of.  But a few days ago I was toying with the idea that grub
could theoreticaly become device path agnostic.  Maybe this doesn't apply to
specific things like software RAID / LVM, but for most weird devices it's
probably feasible.

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