Jeremy Katz wrote:
On Tuesday, June 02 2009, Allen Kistler said:
[snip]
1. Has that been a conscious design choice?
Well, no, apparently it wasn't. It simply resulted because anaconda
switched in F11 to using parted for partitioning. How much anaconda
should do vs. how much parted should do is being discussed among the
maintainers. The rest of us get to wait and watch.
For clarification, anaconda has been using parted for partitioning for
eight years. The code just got reworked for the Fedora 11 cycle and the
swap flag setting got lost in the shuffle
Okay. Sorry if I publicly misinterpreted what I thought I read.
2. Does it introduce inter-operation problems with other distros
(i.e., dual-boot, etc.) and non-Fedora apps?
On that, no one seems to know for sure, but there is concern
that it might. From the comments in the bug, I'd say type 82 is
likely to make a return. Whether it does so by F11 GA is another
matter.
With a fairly high degree of certainty I can say it won't. There might
be problems with something like PartitionMagic (I haven't looked at
their behavior with various odd cases in a couple of years) but the
Linux world has basically stopped caring since with non-msdos partition
tables, you don't have any partition ids to key off of.
Won't be problem for other distros? Other apps? Won't come back?
Won't make it into the GA?
Whatever the intent, fdisk still let's you change the type after
installation if you want. If you don't want, that works for swap, too.
(As I said, I hadn't seen any problems.)
I was under the impression that the RAID autostart type mattered,
though. I can easily remember when it was crucial. Hmm... Maybe it's
time to play.
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