bug#18019: bug-parted Digest, Vol 140, Issue 9

2014-07-16 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/14/2014 03:28 PM, Brian C. Lane wrote: > The compelling reason for the change, other than just following > mdadm's suggestion is Doug's example scenario from the bz entry: > > "It's possible, although it means you have a broken setup, that > y

bug#18019: bug-parted Digest, Vol 140, Issue 9

2014-07-16 Thread Phillip Susi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/14/2014 01:11 PM, Rod Smith wrote: >> How is this at all related? Windows already ignores 0x83. > > It does with the default set of drivers. What if somebody loads a > Linux filesystem driver, though? I don't happen to know what > actually ha

bug#18019: bug-parted Digest, Vol 140, Issue 9

2014-07-14 Thread Brian C. Lane
On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 01:11:26PM -0400, Rod Smith wrote: > All that said, there is a further complication, and this one isn't parted's > fault: The 0xDA type code that's suggested by the mdadm man page is NOT > specific to Linux RAID. According to > http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition

bug#18019: bug-parted Digest, Vol 140, Issue 9

2014-07-14 Thread Rod Smith
On 07/14/2014 12:01 PM, Phillip Susi wrote: I find this logic troubling. It's rather similar to the logic that lead to parted using the pre-existing Microsoft basic data GUID when making Linux partitions on GPT disks; out of a pool of just under infinite alternative GUIDs. "Oh it doesn't really