Re: libparted backend for libstore (was: cannot boot subhurd)

[Neal H. Walfield]

At Sun, 3 Jan 2010 17:15:37 +0100,
Thomas Schwinge wrote:
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> Hello!
> 
> On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 04:56:54PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Thomas Schwinge, le Sun 03 Jan 2010 16:48:00 +0100, a écrit :
> > > We will need it as soon as we switch from the Mach disk device
> > > handling to something more modern (DDE).
> > 
> > It can also be useful for the Xen case, as I haven't plugged the xen
> > device drivers to any partition support.
> 
> Heh, alright.  I have only ever been using this layout for all the Xen
> GNU/Hurd systems: hd0 -- root, hd1 -- swap, hd2 -- data.
> 
> 
> Issue for that:
> <http://www.bddebian.com:8888/~hurd-web/open_issues/libstore_parted/>
> 
> 
> Neal, anything specific that we should know /take care of, about your
> 2001, 2002 code: libparted backend for libstore?

Unfortunately, I don't really remember much about that code.  The
motivation was to be able to evict the partitioning logic from Mach.

Neal