On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, David Miller wrote:
> What I really care about is what will work transparently for existing
> userspace. In particular, distribution installers and existing tools
> like fdisk.
>
> When a slice it being exported, it's not being exported like that so
> that the client can just spam a disk label into it, it's for exporting
> one slice. So we might want (using the scsi naming as an arbitrary
> example case) /dev/sda1 to be created but not /dev/sda
>
> How exactly do you envision this kind of thing working?
How do distribution installers handle USB disks and memory cards? Some tend
to be partitioned, some don't.
With kind regards,
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