Re: preliminary patch towards XEN virtual disk naming

2008-04-22 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Ian Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 18:56 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Tuesday 08 April 2008, Ian Campbell wrote: On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 20:35 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: I would vote for starting the numbering at 1, not 0, as linking 1 to xvda is most natural.

Re: preliminary patch towards XEN virtual disk naming

2008-04-22 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 11:39 +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote: Ian Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 18:56 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Tuesday 08 April 2008, Ian Campbell wrote: On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 20:35 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: I would vote for starting the

Re: preliminary patch towards XEN virtual disk naming

2008-04-22 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Ian Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 11:39 +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote: Ian Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've left any parted enhancements out for now, as you say they would be a useful further specification in the future. What do you mean here? The Unknown

Re: preliminary patch towards XEN virtual disk naming

2008-04-22 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 12:02 +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote: I just meant that the Unknown could become Xen Virtual disk in the future adding a bit more detail to the Virtual disk as Frans suggests above (I think, quoting a bit complex up there ;-)). I managed to follow, we're on the same

Re: preliminary patch towards XEN virtual disk naming

2008-04-22 Thread Otavio Salvador
Ian Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 18:56 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Tuesday 08 April 2008, Ian Campbell wrote: On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 20:35 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: I would vote for starting the numbering at 1, not 0, as linking 1 to xvda is most natural.

Re: preliminary patch towards XEN virtual disk naming

2008-04-22 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 10:20 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: I've left any parted enhancements out for now, as you say they would be a useful further specification in the future. Please post the proposed patch so I can take a look at it. There is no proposed patch for this bit, Ferenc's

Re: preliminary patch towards XEN virtual disk naming

2008-04-21 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 18:56 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: On Tuesday 08 April 2008, Ian Campbell wrote: On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 20:35 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: I would vote for starting the numbering at 1, not 0, as linking 1 to xvda is most natural. One option would be to just use Virtual

Re: preliminary patch towards XEN virtual disk naming

2008-04-20 Thread Frans Pop
On Tuesday 08 April 2008, Ian Campbell wrote: On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 20:35 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: I would vote for starting the numbering at 1, not 0, as linking 1 to xvda is most natural. One option would be to just use Virtual disk in partman (without Xen before it). Then parted's

Re: preliminary patch towards XEN virtual disk naming

2008-04-08 Thread Frans Pop
On Sunday 06 April 2008, Ferenc Wagner wrote: With the attached patch it becomes: 4. XEN virtual disk 1, partition #1 (xvda1) - 5.4 GB Unknown  And similarly for full-disk devices. Now: * Does it make sense to output the disk number (1,2...)? IMO, yes. Other disk types also include an

Re: preliminary patch towards XEN virtual disk naming

2008-04-08 Thread Ian Campbell
On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 10:59 +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote: Ian Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do you have plans to work on D-I for Xen extensively? If so we should sync up. I've just started with this as in my day job I got responsibe for a couple of Xen machines. Till now I don't

Re: preliminary patch towards XEN virtual disk naming

2008-04-08 Thread Ian Campbell
On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 20:35 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: I would vote for starting the numbering at 1, not 0, as linking 1 to xvda is most natural. One option would be to just use Virtual disk in partman (without Xen before it). Then parted's description would be a useful further

Re: preliminary patch towards XEN virtual disk naming

2008-04-07 Thread Ian Campbell
On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 15:18 +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote: Ferenc Wagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So here's something to discuss. This is how it used to look like: OMG, something totally unrelated sneaked into the attached patch, consider this instead: Thanks Ferenc, I've commented on

Re: preliminary patch towards XEN virtual disk naming

2008-04-07 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Ferenc Wagner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): +Template: partman/text/xen_virtual_disk +Type: text +# eg. XEN virtual disk 1 (xvda) +# :sl4: +_Description: XEN virtual disk %s (%s) + +Template: partman/text/xen_virtual_partition +Type: text +# eg. XEN virtual disk 1, partition #1 (xvda1)

Re: preliminary patch towards XEN virtual disk naming

2008-04-07 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Ian Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 15:18 +0200, Ferenc Wagner wrote: Thanks Ferenc, I've commented on #474556. Thanks, I replyed there. On speling you are definitely right, I changed the patch. Starting number, well, do we actually need it at all? Do you have

Re: preliminary patch towards XEN virtual disk naming

2008-04-07 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Christian Perrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Quoting Ferenc Wagner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): +Template: partman/text/xen_virtual_disk +Type: text +# eg. XEN virtual disk 1 (xvda) +# :sl4: +_Description: XEN virtual disk %s (%s) + +Template: partman/text/xen_virtual_partition +Type: text +#

Re: preliminary patch towards XEN virtual disk naming

2008-04-07 Thread Otavio Salvador
Ferenc Wagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Christian Perrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Quoting Ferenc Wagner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): +Template: partman/text/xen_virtual_disk +Type: text +# eg. XEN virtual disk 1 (xvda) +# :sl4: +_Description: XEN virtual disk %s (%s) + +Template:

Re: preliminary patch towards XEN virtual disk naming

2008-04-07 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Otavio Salvador [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ferenc Wagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Christian Perrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Quoting Ferenc Wagner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): +Template: partman/text/xen_virtual_disk +Type: text +# eg. XEN virtual disk 1 (xvda) +# :sl4: +_Description: XEN

Re: preliminary patch towards XEN virtual disk naming

2008-04-06 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Ferenc Wagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So here's something to discuss. This is how it used to look like: OMG, something totally unrelated sneaked into the attached patch, consider this instead: Index: packages/partman/partman-base/debian/partman-base.templates

preliminary patch towards XEN virtual disk naming

2008-04-06 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Hi, So here's something to discuss. This is how it used to look like: Partition disks --- This is an overview of your currently configured partitions and mount points. Select a partition to modify its settings (file system, mount point, etc.), a free space to create partitions,

Re: preliminary patch towards XEN virtual disk naming

2008-04-06 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Ferenc Wagner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * libparted should also recognize the device type, which isn't much of a problem (based on a cursory look at the sources). But that would just duplicate the info on the line at best. Probably something else is needed... But what? Current