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

[Guido Günther]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 09:45:23AM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote:
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> 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
> | kpartx in the initramfs but neither mp nor dmraid.
> | Cheers
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> Of course there is; kpartx is useful for manipulating disk
> images. If you do much with virtual machines, it is handy to have it

That's a reason for splitting out kpartx - and I agreed on that part
already.

> installed but you don't need it in your initramfs. On the other
> hand, I suppose it doesn't really hurt anything to have it in there,
> I just thought that since multipath-tools separated out the
> initramfs hook, it made sense for kpartx to do the same.

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

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