Re: partman review
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 12:34:03AM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 01:55:17PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> >
> > Mmm, how long is this delay ?
>
> It depends. I don't expect it to be more than 30 sec in the worst
> case. If the delay you observed is longer then maybe you discovered
> some bug? If this happens again, please send me the output of the
> command "ps" as well as the contents of the file /var/log/partman.
Ok, here they are attached.
> > Yeah, it should be a arch/subarch dependant thingy. Also, in some case,
> > the hardware can use different partition table formats, but this may
> > have influence on what other OS you can run on the OS together. Maybe a
> > possibility to add a per subarch information screen would be nice.
>
> OK.
>
> > And reiserfs seems to have been broken in the past, not sure though.
>
> Does this mean it is better to use external tool rather than parted to
> format reiserfs?
I don't know, i think not, we just have to make sure that everything is
well in sync. I don't remember the details though.
> Actualy I have observed parted to fail to format even ext2. That's
> why now partman tries to use mkfs.ext2 if parted fails to format a
> partition.
Yeah, me too, but this was probably due to a problem with the amiga
patch, and libparted being broken when a filesystem only provided probe,
but not clober and create. This should be fixed now though.
Also, one of my plans was to fix ext3 partition creation in parted, but
i didn't really have time for it, will find time next week.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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