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Re: Adding support for HP Service Partition GUID for GPT
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Richard Hirst |
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Re: Adding support for HP Service Partition GUID for GPT |
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Tue, 19 Mar 2002 09:28:06 +0000 |
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On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 06:05:48PM +1100, Andrew Clausen wrote:
> Why? Just have:
>
> company: ms, dell, compaq, phoenix
> type: sleep diag
>
> (And you must have exactly one of each, or none at all)
It forces a partition type naming structure on to companies that might
not be happy with it - HP _service_ partition, for example.
If you are going to insist on having one of each, I don't really see the
point in splitting it in to two fields.
> > I think the "named partition type" support
> > is exactly for this kind of problem.
>
> Right. It's describing the CONTENT, not some kind of meta-attribute.
> However, we're talking about 1.4.x here. Maye this problem isn't
> worth solving for 1.4.x?
I'm very much in favour of a simple patch like the one I posted for
1.4.x ;)
In a way, it isn't even describing the content; I can create a
compaq-diag partition and then mke2fs on it.
> > Define "hp-diag" as a GPT
HP would still prefer "hp-service".
> This raises an issue: is it possible to detect these diag
> partitions? I guess they are "just FAT". They are identified
> purely by their partition type.
HP service partition is just FAT, with no other way to identify it.
> In this case, the "type" is really being used as a label.
Yes, except GPT has space for a text string 'name' as well as the GUID
'label' so we need to support both.
I like that actually, "label N hp-service" and "name N some-string".
Richard