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Re: Inconsistent support for dvh disk labels
From: |
Andrew Clausen |
Subject: |
Re: Inconsistent support for dvh disk labels |
Date: |
Wed, 4 Aug 2004 12:10:13 +1000 |
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Mutt/1.3.28i |
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 06:57:27PM +0300, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> Parted shows the bootable partition of the dvh disk label as an extended
> partition and the boot files in this partition are showed as logical
> partition. However the support of the boot files is not fully
> functional. We think that parted should either have fully functional
> support for these or the mapping boot-file<->logical partition should be
> removed.
>
> The future development of the installer will depend on your opinion
> about this bug, so I will appreciate if you share it to me.
My opinion is: this logical partition thing was a hack that some people
might have found useful - but probably not. I'm leaning towards
removing this "feature".
I can't see any elegant way of adding full support... the boot partition
thing is more like a file system than a partition table. The goal
of libparted is to make everything look the same, and keep it simple
as far as possible.
Cheers,
Andrew