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Re: [RFC PATCH] Add new partition type API and convert GPT type checks.
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Andrei Borzenkov |
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Re: [RFC PATCH] Add new partition type API and convert GPT type checks. |
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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.
Re: [RFC PATCH] Add new partition type API and convert GPT type checks., Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko, 2014/09/22