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Author SHA1 Message Date
Stephen Warren d33b98fc82 block: partition: msdos: provide UUIDs for partitions
The MSDOS/MBR partition table includes a 32-bit unique ID, often referred
to as the NT disk signature.  When combined with a partition number within
the table, this can form a unique ID similar in concept to EFI/GPT's
partition UUID.  Constructing and recording this value in struct
partition_meta_info allows MSDOS partitions to be referred to on the
kernel command-line using the following syntax:

root=PARTUUID=0002dd75-01

Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2012-11-23 14:28:58 +01:00
Al Viro 9be96f3fd1 move fs/partitions to block/
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-01-03 22:54:06 -05:00