Re: switch to partman?
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 06:08:02PM -0600, Stephen R Marenka wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 11:50:07AM +0200, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote:
> > On Friday 13 February 2004 23:47, Stephen R Marenka wrote:
> > > It's dog slow on m68k -- sometimes 10-15 seconds on an 040/25
> > > (maybe middle of the pack speed-wise). I only used it to make sure
> > > it works. I'm testing with partitioner/partconf because it's much
> > > faster. The interface is likely to be easier to use for newbies,
> > > but it's a real drag for experts.
> >
> > Well, I don't think that m68k is the majority of the systems running
> > Debian out there. But even in that case, partconf would still be
> > there to be used in case the user does not prefer partman.
> > What I'm saying is that at this point it seems a duplication of effort
> > to include and develop both!
>
> m68k is certainly not a majority arch. ;-)
>
> Although, I have noticed a bit of a revival going on lately. I don't
> know what that's about.
>
> However, if we keep partconf and partitioner around, then they will need
> to be maintained. I'd rather see one solution that was flexible, and
> fast enough, for everyone.
>
> While I'm not crazy about the partman ui, the design seems to be fairly
> flexible. It's definitely more newbie friendly than mac-fdisk. I also
> like the idea of having one interface for all the archs, since I switch
> between three on a regular basis.
Notice that for both amiga and mac, all libparted based solution should
just do. I will probably add some missing amiga related features (boot
priority setting mostly and amiga filesystem creation) in the near future.
There is still the problem of atari partition tables, but i know nothing
of those, nor do i have the hardware for it. I could implement it if i
was given access to documentation, and someone with actual hardware
would test it for me.
I don't know what partitioning scheme the other m68k subarches use.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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