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

[Joel Granados]

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 02:43:16PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Another nice thing to 1.8.9 is the latest patch from Colin to improve
> ext4 support. I think it is also required.

I looked at this and actually skipped it on purpose.  I'll ask a
question that Jim asked me for one of my patches.  Does it actually fix
a bug?  a missbehaviour?.  I think that feature should probably go into
the next branch.

Regards.

> 
> 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).
> >
> >
> > --
> > Best regards / s pozdravem
> >
> > Petr Uzel, Packages maintainer
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Joel Andres Granados
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