Re: Installer, ISO9660, etc.

[Danny Milosavljevic]

Hi Ludo,

On Tue, 11 Jul 2017 11:23:46 +0200
address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) wrote:

> Is it really a problem to always have a partition table?

The ISO9660 filesystem code doesn't find its primary volume descriptor when 
it's looking for it on the (fake) partition.  (I'm not sure what the fake 
partition is for in the first place).

But /proc/partitions would have contained "sda" itself, Guix just filters it 
out.

Of course we could special-case ISO9660 - but even easier (and less surprising) 
would be to just use /proc/partitions as-is and not fiddle with it (ok, maybe 
filter out the ram disks - not sure what that's about).

WDYT?