From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 08:41:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 08:41:12 -0500 Received: from postfix.conectiva.com.br ([200.250.58.155]:56079 "HELO postfix.conectiva.com.br") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Wed, 24 Jan 2001 08:41:04 -0500 Message-ID: <3A6EDB56.4417D634@conectiva.com.br> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 11:40:38 -0200 From: Andrew Clausen Organization: Conectiva X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [pt_BR] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17-14cl i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Glenn McGrath Cc: Bryan Henderson , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bug-parted@gnu.org Subject: Re: Partition IDs in the New World TM In-Reply-To: <3A6DCEEC.66B15F3F@conectiva.com.br> <3A6DFF3D.2841ADD5@optushome.com.au> 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 Glenn McGrath wrote: > > Andrew Clausen wrote: > > > > Bryan Henderson wrote: > > > Incidentally, I just realized that the common name "partition ID" > > > for this value is quite a misnomer. As far as I know, it has > > > never identified the partition, but rather described its contents. > > > > Yes, "partition type ID" is better. > > > > Why not call it filesystem id, thats what its usually describing Not true. It may be describing LVM, RAID, or save-ram-to-disk-for-fast-restart Andrew Clausen - 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/