So, in aif we switched approaches to list all possible block devices the user can install Arch to. at first, we listed blockdevices directly in /dev, by having some expressions like /dev/hd*, /dev/sd*, then later we needed to add /dev/vd*, /dev/xvd* and more to support all kinds of hardware and virtualisation solutions. This was a bit of a kludge, so we approached the problem from the other direction: Now we go over everything in /sys/block and filter _out_ the stuff we _don't_ want. (such as devices with size 0 - empty card readers - type 5 - cdrom drives) etc. see https://github.com/Dieterbe/aif/blob/develop/src/core/libs/lib-blockdevices-filesystems.sh#L215 This seems to work at least a tiny bit better, even though the problem is similar (we need to maintain filters to remove what we don't want..) I think the final filter we need to add is for the following devices: /dev/dm-0 /dev/dm-1 /dev/dm-2 /dev/loop0 /dev/loop1 /dev/loop100 /dev/loop101 /dev/loop102 /dev/loop103 /dev/loop104 /dev/loop105 /dev/loop106 /dev/loop107 /dev/loop108 /dev/loop109 /dev/loop110 /dev/loop2 /dev/loop3 /dev/loop4 /dev/loop5 /dev/loop6 /dev/loop7
are these all created by archiso? what exactly are they for? does anyone know what is the best way to ignore them? * some property in /sys/block/<dev>/ ? * how about just maintaining a list of exactly all these filenames .. or: * how about having archiso maintain a file called /var/aif-blockdevices or something? then aif can read that file and ignore blockdevices based on what it finds there. (just don't call it archiso-blockdevices or something, because AIF is supposed to be able to run in several environments)
