From: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
To: Tom Gall <tom_gall@vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: yellowdog-devel@lists.yellowdoglinux.com,
linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: RFC: Changing default partition type for linux/ppc
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 15:28:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000707152806.E12840@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3965D59C.BC1BAC93@vnet.ibm.com>
On Fri, Jul 07, Tom Gall wrote:
>
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> > Hi all !
>
> Greets!
>
> > So I suggest moving to Linux_ext2, Linux_swap, or maybe simply Linux and
> > Linux_swap (since ext2 is not the only filesystem Linux may put on
> > these). Using a different type for swap would help avoiding confusion.
>
> I agree. I think this is a good step. However there's the obvious interoperability
> problems with MacOS, OS X etc... Hopefully Apple's OSes wouldn't do anything evil
> to the partition they don't recognize.
As someone real important said a couple of weeks ago:
Don't trust them.
You know the slogan of Apple ;)
Gruss Olaf
--
$ man clone
BUGS
Main feature not yet implemented...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-07-07 13:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-07-07 10:59 RFC: Changing default partition type for linux/ppc Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2000-07-07 13:05 ` Tom Gall
2000-07-07 13:28 ` Olaf Hering [this message]
2000-07-07 13:33 ` Hollis Blanchard
2000-07-07 15:25 ` Charles Stevenson
2000-07-07 16:14 ` Michael Schmitz
2000-07-07 22:19 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2000-07-07 19:30 ` Nelson Abramson
2000-07-08 5:16 ` Ethan Benson
2000-07-10 14:38 ` Michael Schmitz
2000-07-09 7:37 ` Hollis Blanchard
2000-07-07 14:12 ` Eric Valette
2000-07-07 17:37 ` Mark Hatle
2000-07-07 22:21 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2000-07-09 21:22 ` Tom Vier
2000-07-09 21:33 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2000-07-10 0:33 ` Tom Vier
2000-07-10 1:49 ` Matt Brubeck
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2000-07-07 11:22 Iain Sandoe
2000-07-07 12:49 ` Hollis Blanchard
2000-07-07 14:13 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
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