Re: Bug#260763: [powerpc] Problems with logical volume setup during installation
> > There is no such thing as flags for most things in Mac partition tables
>
> Parted converts flags to funky partition type names, i think. Not idea, but it
> works, like said, i think parted is inherently broken on this, but there is
> not much we can do at this time.
They might have done this following a comment of mine (my memory id fuzzy
on this, not sure they ever asked). Using the partition type (which is
just a string) is indeed broken IMO.
> > this stuff in a second). You can either use a reserved partition type
> > (again, I don't know what's reserved by Apple there, we use the A/UX
> > partition type Apple_UNIX_SVR2 to be safe), or stick 'LVM' in the
> > partition _name_ which can be pretty arbitrary anyway. The d-i partition
> > editor sets this to 'untitled' when it could well store the mount point
> > info there, plus 'LVM' for LVM partitions, or other info.
>
> Exact, which is the code i proposed to add.
So we should press this point a bit more forcefully :-)
> > Whatever we do, it needs to be coordinated with the other powerpc distros.
> > I don't know if a new partition type is safe to use; the partition name
> > definitely is.
>
> And was stopped because of this consideration. If i had time, i would say
> let's lead by example on this one, and the others will follow.
If parted currently encodes the LVM flag in the partition type we can
still put it into the partition name on top of that, and get the Debian
LVM maintainer to accept either flag?
Michael
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