Re: Amiga RDB

"Ingo Weinhold" <bonefish-CFLBMwTPW48UNGrzBIF7/[email protected]> wrote:
> "Axel Dörfler" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I would actually appreciate if DriveSetup (or the appropriate add-
> > on) 
> > could make the reserved space visible.
> Grrr... ;-)

Hehe :-)

> > 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.
> That's something different I'd say. This special partition would 
> simply 
> be represented as, well, a special partition. In fact we may even 
> want 
> to allow moving and resizing for it.

Whoa, although I think you are right :-)

> > Anyway, for now, I don't think we have to deal with it - just 
> > report 
> > the accessible partition size and we're happy.
> I would actually rather like to do it right in the first place, i.e. 
> let's either decide in favor one way or another, but not for 
> preliminaries.
> 
> The question that comes to my mind is, what function has this 
> reserved 
> space sticked to a partition? I can't really think of anything that 
> makes much sense. And if that's the case, then I'm tending to favor 
> dealing with it in the stepmotherly way outlined earlier, instead of 
> extending the API just to include a nice handling for that particular 
> partitioning scheme.

I don't even know if it is used by any file system, so maybe we should 
even think about wanting to support it :-)
But I could at least check if any of my collection of hard disks do 
that :-)

> I'm a bit uncertain, whether I start to dislike the 
> BPartitionableSpace 
> objects. In the case of this partitioning system they would certainly 
> respect the reserved space attached to the partitions and thus make 
> DriveSetup think, that the partitions can't be moved only a short 
> distance, as that would invade non-partitionable space.

That reserved space would have to belong to the partition itself, I 
think. But if you start to dislike the BPartitionableSpace objects, I 
can't stop you ;-)

Adios...
   Axel.