Re: Amiga RDB

"Ingo Weinhold" <bonefish-CFLBMwTPW48UNGrzBIF7/[email protected]> wrote:
> Sounds `Mostly Harmless'. :-)

Right, also it combines most of the features found in other 
partitioning schemes.

> Save one point maybe: The possibility to define reserved blocks at 
> beginning and end of the partition doesn't fit that nicely into the 
> latest draft version of the DiskDevice API (nor into any of the 
> earlier 
> versions ;-). In order to still being able consider a partition a 
> contiguous space a disk system resides on, it would be necessary to 
> report only the non-reserved blocks as the partition space. But this 
> is 
> not so nice for DriveSetup, since it won't be able to display the 
> reserved parts and the user might get a wrong impression about to 
> which 
> point a partition can be moved/resized.
> 
> Since the BDiskSystem::Validate*() calls will be used to ensure, that 
> the new partition position and size will be OK, this won't have any 
> bad 
> consequences (let alone the slightly incorrect visualization), 
> though. 
> I could live with that.

I would actually appreciate if DriveSetup (or the appropriate add-on) 
could make the reserved space visible.
If you remember, we want to have a similar problem (at least I do ;-)) 
with our special partition used for RAID information etc. - something 
like this could also be handled as reserved space.
Anyway, for now, I don't think we have to deal with it - just report 
the accessible partition size and we're happy.

Adios...
   Axel.