[parted-devel] [PATCH] Add NEWS entry for "Add partition separator only when required"

[Jim Meyering]

Phillip Susi wrote:
> +  Device-mapper devices ( LVM, dmraid ) no longer insert a 'p' between the
> +  base device name and the partition number unless the last character of
> +  the base device name is a digit.  This brings parted into compliance with
> +  the partition naming of kpartx and "linux since the dawn of time", but
> +  differs from the way that dmraid 1.0.0-rc16-3 operates.  A patch to
> +  correct dmraid has been submitted to ataraid-list at redhat.com.  Without
> +  this patch, parted and dmraid will both create duplicate partition devices
> +  named /dev/mapper/foo1 and /dev/mapper/foop1.

Thanks.  Applied.