Guest section DW wrote:
>
> [But in fact I wrote a lot of partition management code
> and put only a bare minimum into the kernel. This just
> suffices to do a few things. Adam Richter recently expressed
> his satisfaction that it is really possible to remove
> all partition reading code from the kernel and do
> everything in userspace. Maybe he is the first to actually use
> these facilities. However, not everything that is possible
> is also convenient - when these facilities really get used, it
> will probably be a good idea to add a little more kernel stuff.]
>
> [Something else that is possible today, but used by nobody,
> is to have a Linux disklabel on a disk, with first a label
> for the disk itself and then a list of partitions and volume
> labels for each, independent of the filesystem inside the
> partition. I have not really thought about what would be
> the most elegant or the most convenient way to make such
> things available.]
>
That sounds like, in effect, a Linux partition table. Given that the
DOS partition scheme sucks baby elephants through cellular stomata this
isn't necessarily a bad idea, but we want it to make sense.
-hpa
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