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Re: Not really a bug...
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Andrew Clausen |
Subject: |
Re: Not really a bug... |
Date: |
Thu, 15 Mar 2001 22:46:49 +1100 |
Dan Knapp wrote:
>
> > Parted does display "Using [device-name]". You really think
> > I should remove this guessing stuff? What does everyone else
> > think?
>
> For myself, I'm happy to have it how it is, but perhaps it is a
> real issue. Anybody who uses parted frequently can just have it aliased
> to "parted /dev/hda" (though not with an unmodified copy of the boot disk),
> so it's no big deal to take away the defaulting.
No-one uses parted that much! Which is an argument for saying
that convienience is not important.
> > I'm working on operation queue stuff ATM, so it will work by
> > [do all operations], then you type commit, where it will display
> > a scary message. I think this is better in the long run.
>
> And I'm working, don't forget, on precisely the feature of backing up the
> table to disk. As I have time...
BTW, backing up in memory is already implemented... in 1.5.x,
ped_disk_duplicate(). But, committing from backups wouldn't
work, because the on-disk checkpoint would be bogus. This
is an interesting issue. It is akin to the issues I have
been having with copying file systems.
Andrew Clausen