[arch-releng] giving archiso block devices more clear names

[Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi]

On 08/09/2011 05:18 PM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:45:09 -0300
> Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi<vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar>  wrote:
>
>> On 08/09/2011 10:09 AM, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote:
>>> On 08/09/2011 09:24 AM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> to solve https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25425 in a robust and clear
>>>> way, I suggest to - in archiso - prefix all blockdevice filenames with
>>>> "archiso_".
>>>> (also, I'm more a fan of underscores then hyphens, in this case it
>>>> might not matter, but they are usually a bit more robust (like LVM
>>>> filenames and for variables in bash) so I stick to them for consistency)
>>>> I.e.
>>>> /dev/mapper/archiso_lib_modules
>>>> /dev/mapper/archiso_root_image
>>>> /dev/mapper/archiso_usr_share
>>>>
>>>> Dieter
>>>>
>>> Hola
>>>
>>> OK, to be consistent I will change *.sfs filenames s/-/_/ (all, not
>>> only that will be used with dm-snapshot) and in initramfs stage for
>>> dm-snapshot devices I will prefix with archiso_ for device nodes.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> mmmm thinker better... to avoid confusion, prefix filenames can be
>> better otherwise will have:
>>
>> (This also applies for usr-share and lib-modules)
>>
>> filenames: root_image.fs.sfs
>> aitab: root_image
>> fstab /dev/mapper/archiso_root_image
>>
>> Maybe much better is (what your get is what you see)
>>
>> filenames: archiso_root_image.fs.sfs
>> aitab: archiso_root_image
>> fstab: /dev/mapper/archiso_root_image
>>
>> Other solution, but can be confusing, is just assing the name
>> /dev/mapper/archiso_root_image to "root-image".
>>
>> opinions?
>>
>>
> I'm all for consistency, so yeah IMHO use the same archiso_ prefix everywhere.
>
> Dieter
>

I take the way of just prefixing dm-snapshot devices 
(/dev/mapper/arch_*). Otherwise you get long filenames in all places :s

Just ignore these devices in AIF, thats all.

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Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
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