In an effort to reduce the indentation in my MUA for this thread I'm starting from the top :-) I've done some testing using Giuseppe's businesscard image in VirtualBox and based on the results I've made some additional changes. The end results of the tests are excellent: - I have seen no problems at all in the new libparted support - with some additional changes dmraid support in partman is now clean and without hacks; partitioning of a dmraid device can now be done just like it is a regular disk; the dmraid-udeb is no longer needed - support in grub-installer is still a hack, but works Based on these results I would suggest to go ahead and try to get these changes merged for Lenny. This means the following actions are needed: - get an OK for the change in devicemapper from maintainer and RT - get an OK for the change in parted from RT (and maybe check that the patch will also get accepted upstream?) - get updated devicemapper and parted uploaded to unstable - commit changes in D-I (I have them in a git branch) - upload updated D-I packages - test dmraid, in emulator and preferably also on real hardware - get Guido Güther to also test multipath as code is related in a number of places Note that IMO we should make sure that we give proper credit to Luke Yelavich (who did the work for Ubuntu) and Ubuntu in the changelog entries. I will follow up to this mail with some details of my test results and additional changes. Cheers, FJP
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