On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Martin Bochnig wrote:
Why would someone be against that so called "user friendliness"?
Being against this proposal means actively harming Solaris' prevalence.
If the result is user-friendly I'm all for it.
I'm just not sure it will be.
The install utilities will not show you that there are Linux/Windows
filesystems present in "logical drives".
libdiskmgt (the "device in use" checking facility) will still not be able
to warn you that your mkfs -F pcfs command will overwrite a filesystem
that exists within the specified "logical drive".
fstyp will still not be able to tell you what's inside an extended
partition.
fdisk's numbering of partitions will not be the same as PCFS' numbering,
at least not until we change PCFS to no longer skip non-DOS partition
types when enumerating partitions.
The good thing is that fdisk will finally show you "the whole PC
partitioning shebang".
I do think the project useful because of the extensions to fdisk. It
finally makes it unnecessary to boot into Linux and use Linux' fdisk to
see everything. I want to see that.
But as far as "generic accessibility of extended partitions / logical
drives" goes, the project falls short. If the expectations towards it are
too high, then what will be delivered would simply add to the existing
confusion (wrt. to what supports what and how is what done regarding
PC-style partitioning) instead of reducing it.
FrankH.
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