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,
 
Geert Uytterhoeven
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