Re: partman - s390 support
On 7.III.2004 at 12:44 Bastian Blank wrote:
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> This features will be needed by a possible s390 support in partman:
> - IBM disklabels (Sven Luther offered to take a look on it) for internal
> storage, some other partition type for the FC storage.
Yes, without this it is very difficult to add support of s390 to
partman.
> - Proper recognition of the sector size (see #236325).
I suppose this is not absolutely necessary (acording to the comment of
Sven Luther to this bug report).
> - The block size of ext2/ext3 needs to be >= sector size, otherwise the
> kernel will refuse to use them. This may apply to other FS as well.
Even if libparted doesn't support this, we can use mkfs.ext2/3 instead
of libparted.
> - It should be possible to force the availability of a /boot mountpoint
> under some conditions (it is currently not possible to have a
> bootkernel on a FC disc, but root may on such a device)
OK.
Anton Zinoviev
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