Bug#751029: Please split kpartx off from multipath-tools

2014-06-11 Thread Phillip Susi
On 6/11/2014 12:29 AM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: Thank you Phillip and Guido for this conversation and concluding it. Please feel free to submit the reworked patch. So we are just splitting to a new kpartx package. Ok, here you go... now it just splits the kpartx binary into its own udeb. === m

Bug#751029: Please split kpartx off from multipath-tools

2014-06-10 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
On 06/11/2014 01:54 AM, Phillip Susi wrote: > > On 6/10/2014 4:09 PM, Guido Günther wrote: > | Doesn't dmraid need an initramfs hook by itself already? > | Cheers, > > Hrm.. it does... I suppose it wouldn't hurt to duplicate the hooks > code there, so I guess you could drop the kpartx-boot part. W

Bug#751029: Please split kpartx off from multipath-tools

2014-06-10 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/10/2014 4:09 PM, Guido Günther wrote: | Doesn't dmraid need an initramfs hook by itself already? | Cheers, Hrm.. it does... I suppose it wouldn't hurt to duplicate the hooks code there, so I guess you could drop the kpartx-boot part. Would you

Bug#751029: Please split kpartx off from multipath-tools

2014-06-10 Thread Guido Günther
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 03:23:38PM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 6/10/2014 2:39 PM, Guido Günther wrote: > | MP needs the hook to update the initramfs but kpartx doesn't. So I > | think there should be a separate kpartx package, no kpartx-boot

Bug#751029: Please split kpartx off from multipath-tools

2014-06-10 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/10/2014 2:39 PM, Guido Günther wrote: | MP needs the hook to update the initramfs but kpartx doesn't. So I | think there should be a separate kpartx package, no kpartx-boot needed | or am I missing something? | -- Guido dmraid needs the hook t

Bug#751029: Please split kpartx off from multipath-tools

2014-06-10 Thread Guido Günther
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 09:45:23AM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 6/10/2014 3:52 AM, Guido Günther wrote: > | Do we really need a kpartx-boot for that? Wouldn't it be sufficient to > | split out kpartx and let the initramfs hooks of dmraid and m

Bug#751029: Please split kpartx off from multipath-tools

2014-06-10 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6/10/2014 3:52 AM, Guido Günther wrote: | Do we really need a kpartx-boot for that? Wouldn't it be sufficient to | split out kpartx and let the initramfs hooks of dmraid and mp handle | the rest? I don't think there's a usecase yet where one wants

Bug#751029: Please split kpartx off from multipath-tools

2014-06-10 Thread Guido Günther
On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 01:47:02PM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote: > Package: src:multipath-tools > Version: 0.5.0-1 > Tags: patch > > Two years ago we made some changes to dmraid and multipath-tools in > Ubuntu and I'd like to get them merged upstream. The changes > involve having dmraid disable its

Bug#751029: Please split kpartx off from multipath-tools

2014-06-09 Thread Phillip Susi
Package: src:multipath-tools Version: 0.5.0-1 Tags: patch Two years ago we made some changes to dmraid and multipath-tools in Ubuntu and I'd like to get them merged upstream. The changes involve having dmraid disable its internal partition detection code, and rely instead on kpartx to activat