Re: DiskDevice API 2.2 remarks

"Ingo Weinhold" <bonefish-CFLBMwTPW48UNGrzBIF7/[email protected]> wrote:
> *sigh* My mail is completely mangled again. Tyler, I remember, Axel 
> said, there would possibly be a mailing list setting=3D3F Have you had 
> a 
> closer look=3D3F
> ...
> Original mail edited for readability (replacing question marks is a 
> bit 
> of fighting wind mills, but... ;-):

Perhaps we should add an option to BeMail to repair those mails :-)

> > some more thoughts on the updated DiskDevice API.
> > ...

Sounds good to me.

> > Now, I finally know, what bothered me a bit. A partition actually 
> > has 
> > two types, an outer and inner type. The former one is assigned by 
> > the 
> > parent partition, while the latter one describes the contents. The 
> > same 
> > holds, of course, for the parameters. I wonder, if we should make 
> > that 
> > explicit in the API and have Type() and ContentType(). That way we 
> > could also drop the BDiskDevice::DeviceType(). CanEditParameters(), 
> > GetParameterEditor() and SetParameters() would each get a second, 
> > `Content', version.
> > What do you think=3D3F

Yes, that makes sense - I would like to see this differentiation :-)

Adios...
   Axel.