On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 08:55:21AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
Luca Berra wrote:
making it harder for the user is a good thing, but please not at the
expense of usability
What's the usability problem?
if we fail to support all partitioning schemes and we do not support
non partitioned dev
Luca Berra wrote:
making it harder for the user is a good thing, but please not at the
expense of usability
What's the usability problem?
-hpa
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On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 07:46:59AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
Luca Berra wrote:
I don't like using partition type as a qualifier, there is people who do
not wish to partition their drives, there are systems not supporting
msdos like partitions, heck even m$ is migrating away from those.
Th
Luca Berra wrote:
This, in fact is *EXACTLY* what we're talking about; it does require
autoassemble. Why do we care about the partition types at all? The
reason is that since the md superblock is at the end, it doesn't get
automatically wiped if the partition is used as a raw filesystem, an
On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 06:47:54PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
Neil Brown wrote:
Requiring that mdadm.conf describes the actual state of all volumes
would be an enormous step in the wrong direction. Right now, the Linux
md system can handle some very oddball hardware changes (such as on
hera
On Monday February 6, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Neil Brown wrote:
> >
> > Just as there is a direct unambiguous causal path from something
> > present at early boot to the root filesystem that is mounted (and the
> > root filesystem specifies all other filesystems through fstab)
> > similarly the
Neil Brown wrote:
What constitutes 'a piece of data'? A bit? a byte?
I would say that
msdos:fd
is one piece of data. The 'fd' is useless without the 'msdos'.
The 'msdos' is, I guess, not completely useless with the fd.
I would lean towards the composite, but I wouldn't fight a separatio
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 05:42:45PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> What about non-DOS partitions?
Is something like libblkid suitable as a starting point of something
you can cut-down-to-size?
textdata bss dec hex filename
249782272 12 272626a7e /lib/libblkid.s
