[parted-devel] Parted Stuff that needs fixing before 1.8.9

[Otavio Salvador]

Another nice thing to 1.8.9 is the latest patch from Colin to improve
ext4 support. I think it is also required.

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 7:00 AM, Petr Uzel <petr.uzel at suse.cz> wrote:
> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:28:15AM +0200, Joel Granados wrote:
>> Hello list.
>>
>> In my continuing effort to make 1.8.9 happen I have decided to make a
>> summary of what needs to be fixed for 1.8.9.  The idea is for 1.8.9 to
>> be released when all these issues have been resolved.  If I miss any
>> bugs issues that are important to someone, feel free to scream at me :)
>
> Hi,
>
> what about this one:
>
> - parted does not preserve bootcode in extended partition
> http://www.mail-archive.com/parted-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org/msg02139.html
>
> I know the proposed patch isn't ideal,
>
>> When creating new extended partition (not modifying existing one),
>> the bootcode is not filled with zeroes and will contain some random
>> stuff instead (not sure if this might cause some kind of problems).
>
> but on the other hand, no one seems to be aware of any troubles this
> may cause (moreover, parted shipped with SuSE has this patch and is
> seems OK).
>
>
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>
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