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Re: PATCH: fix gcc bug and big-endian issues for GPT
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Andrew Clausen |
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Re: PATCH: fix gcc bug and big-endian issues for GPT |
Date: |
Sat, 6 Apr 2002 18:05:08 +1000 |
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Mutt/1.3.28i |
On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 09:39:21AM +0100, Richard Hirst wrote:
> 1. It wouldn't make the code work on big-endian machines.
Why not? I fixed the endianness issues independently. Unless
I missed something...
> 2. It wouldn't fix the problems with partition unique GUIDs having the
> wrong byte-order.
Likewise.
> 3. Kernel code has been changed is a similar way, so it makes some sense to
> keep parted in step.
I disagree... modifying partition tables is 10x harder than just
reading them. Notice that my rewrite is about 1/2 LOC of the original.
I don't like the layout of the 1.4.x code... I would prefer to
maintain my version.
> > BTW: if we get 1.6.0 out soon (like, once gpt is fixed, tommorrow is
> > fine by me...), then is there a good reason to fix 1.4.x gpt as
> > well? Since the code is so different, it's probably not worth
> > the effort to maintain both gpt implementations...
>
> Debian woody release is "any day now", and will release with 1.4 as the
> default parted version. RedHat is using 1.4 at the moment, no idea
> whether they would immediately switch or not. For people with graphical
> frontends on top of libparted1.4, does switching to 1.6 involve some
> rework of their frontend?
Yeah, pretty minimal though.
> If so, they might want to stick with 1.4 for
> a while yet.
The changes are so minimal that that seems like a strange reason to me.
Being careful wrt new bugs is a more likely reason.
Anyway, my main question was: "are these distro's going to be widely
used with gpt tables?".
Andrew
- Re: PATCH: fix gcc bug and big-endian issues for GPT, (continued)
- Re: PATCH: fix gcc bug and big-endian issues for GPT, Andrew Clausen, 2002/04/06
- Re: PATCH: fix gcc bug and big-endian issues for GPT, Richard Hirst, 2002/04/06
- Re: PATCH: fix gcc bug and big-endian issues for GPT, Andrew Clausen, 2002/04/06
- Re: PATCH: fix gcc bug and big-endian issues for GPT, Neal H Walfield, 2002/04/07
- Re: PATCH: fix gcc bug and big-endian issues for GPT, Andrew Clausen, 2002/04/07
- Re: PATCH: fix gcc bug and big-endian issues for GPT, Neal H Walfield, 2002/04/07
- Re: PATCH: fix gcc bug and big-endian issues for GPT, Andrew Clausen, 2002/04/07
- Re: PATCH: fix gcc bug and big-endian issues for GPT, Andrew Clausen, 2002/04/07
- Re: PATCH: fix gcc bug and big-endian issues for GPT, Neal H Walfield, 2002/04/07
- Re: PATCH: fix gcc bug and big-endian issues for GPT, Andrew Clausen, 2002/04/07
Re: PATCH: fix gcc bug and big-endian issues for GPT,
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RE: PATCH: fix gcc bug and big-endian issues for GPT, Matt_Domsch, 2002/04/05