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Re: [RFC PATCH] Add new partition type API and convert GPT type checks.


From: Andrei Borzenkov
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Add new partition type API and convert GPT type checks.
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 23:19:57 +0400

В Mon, 22 Sep 2014 11:59:06 -0700
Michael Marineau <address@hidden> пишет:

> This introduces a new type() function for partmaps modeled after the
> label() and uuid() functions for filesystems. A likely future extension
> will be support partition labels and uuids as well.

Is there other partition type beyond GPT that supports it? What
advantages it has over using filesystem label or uuid?

>                                                    This is in
> preparation for adding more functionality like a search.part_type
> command.
> 

What is use case? search is expected to return a single object; but you
cannot presume uniqueness of partition of given type. That's different
from label or uuid.



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