From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 01:24:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 01:24:07 -0500 Received: from neon-gw.transmeta.com ([209.10.217.66]:6923 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 01:23:51 -0500 Message-ID: <3A6D2365.EB7F2F31@transmeta.com> Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 22:23:33 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Organization: Transmeta Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0 i686) X-Accept-Language: en, sv, no, da, es, fr, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andreas Dilger CC: "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Partition IDs in the New World TM In-Reply-To: <200101230447.f0N4lpf23686@webber.adilger.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andreas Dilger wrote: > > H. Peter Anvin writes: > > We have: > > > > 0x82 - Linux swap > > 0x83 - Linux filesystem > > 0x85 - Linux extended partition (yes, this one does matter!) > > > > There seems to be some value in having a different value for swap. It > > lets an automatic program find a partition that does not contain data. > > What would be wrong with changing the kernel to skip the first page of > swap, and allowing us to put a signature there? This would be really > useful for systems that mount ext2 filesystems by LABEL or UUID. With > the exception of swap, you currently don't need to care about what disk > a filesystem is on. Of course, LVM also fixes this, but not everyone > runs LVM. > It already does that, you know. Nothing inherently wrong, *EXCEPT* that it breaks a bunch of programs already out there. -hpa -- at work, in private! "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/puzzle.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/