doc: add NEWS entry for "Add partition separator only when required"

[android-x86/external-parted.git] / NEWS

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 566484c..a537cb3 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -38,6 +38,10 @@ GNU parted NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   with an HFS or HFS+ signature, but with invalid ->total_blocks and/or
   ->block_size values.
 
+  parted now uses ext_range device sysfs attribute to determine maximum number
+  of partitions the device can hold.  With this change, parted now correctly
+  informs kernel about new partitions on partitionable MD RAID devices.
+
 ** Changes in behavior
 
   parted: mkpart command has changed semantics with regard to specifying end
@@ -45,6 +49,15 @@ GNU parted NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   subtracts one sector from the specified value. With this change, it is now
   possible to create partitions like 1MiB-2MiB, 2MiB-3MiB and so on.
 
+  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@redhat.com.  Without
+  this patch, parted and dmraid will both create duplicate partition devices
+  named /dev/mapper/foo1 and /dev/mapper/foop1.
+
 ** Build-related
 
   "make dist" no longer builds .tar.gz files.