Comment 18 for bug 719129

Based on comment #17, I think we are on same page. :-)

Attached is an initial patch to use native libparted /dev/mapper
dmraid support. This patch was generated using:

   $ git diff > enable-libparted-dmraid.patch

During the development process I discovered that an automatic
configure option that checked only the libparted version would not
work. The reason for this is that the naming standard used by the
installed version of dmraid might not match with the naming standard
used by the installed version of libparted. Hence I chose to
implement a manual configuration flag: --enable-libparted-dmraid.

My preference is to test in a virtual machine, but I do not know how
to do this when testing dmraid devices.
Do you know how to set up dmraid devices in a virtual machine?

This patch requires much more testing.
Are you able to test this with Natty?

You will need to configure with the "--enable-libparted-dmraid" flag
to test with Natty.

If this patch works then you do not need to worry about the previous
patch and bug report that I mentioned.