Re: Amiga RDB

On 2003-05-23 at 09:42:49 [-0700], Ingo Weinhold wrote:
> "Axel Dörfler" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > "Ingo Weinhold" <bonefish-CFLBMwTPW48UNGrzBIF7/[email protected]> wrote:
> [...]
> > > > 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 :-)
> 
> That would be great! When moving last year, I disposed a lot of things
> I had no longer need for. Among those also all my Amiga stuff (not
> light-heartedly though). So, I can't check it myself.

Is Amiga still used in Germany? I know mphipps was an Amiga fan, but 
Amiga was really nothing more than a legend to me until I started 
working on this project. I've never even so much as seen an Amiga box...

> > > 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 ;-)
> 
> Hehe. I'm still waiting for a plea from Tyler to keep them. :-P

If anyone has a better idea, I'm willing to hear it out. :-P :-)

Why not make the non-reserved space a virtual sub-partition of the 
actual partition? Then you could still move the entire partition 
around, reserved space and all, while respecting the reservations.

-Tyler