Hi Johannes,
On 5 January 2015 at 09:24, Johannes Berg wrote:
> Looks fine to me (though the commit message shouldn't contain the email
> "boilerplate" of "hi all" etc - should just be
Ah, sorry for the extra noise.
> However I'm not sure I should apply this through my tree?
I think you're rig
Glenn McGrath wrote:
>
> Andrew Clausen wrote:
> >
> > Bryan Henderson wrote:
> > > Incidentally, I just realized that the common name "partition ID"
> > > for this value is quite a misnomer. As far as I know, it has
> > > never iden
lways using that).
OK.
> Incidentally, I just realized that the common name "partition ID"
> for this value is quite a misnomer. As far as I know, it has
> never identified the partition, but rather described its contents.
Yes, "partition type ID" is better.
Andrew Cla
nux/Well behaved operationing systems that look for
file system signatures, rather than relying on stupid Partition IDs/
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Russell King wrote:
>
> Andrew Clausen writes:
> > Why is this necessary? Can't the RAID drivers probe the device for
> > signatures, the same way file systems do?
>
> One possible problem I can see here is to do with removal of RAID. Think
> of a RAID-1 a
Russell King wrote:
>
> Andrew Clausen writes:
> > But, for "well behaved operating systems", can't we do it this way?
> > (For the dos partition table scheme, 0x83 could be our "file system
> > type", 0x82 our "swap type", or whatever)
ould be our "file system
type", 0x82 our "swap type", or whatever)
Tchau,
Andrew Clausen
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ne type for each
TYPE of data (file system, swap, logical volume physical device, etc.)?
Tchau,
Andrew Clausen
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