On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:29:49 +0100 Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 16/06/10 17:10, Randy Dunlap wrote: > > > > Yes, progress is good, and both of you know your users better than > > I do, but I would be concerned about mucking up those working scripts > > out there in the wild, so I would leave 'fdisk' working as is > > and make modern-fdisk (mfdisk) have the new behavior. > > Same binary file (for software development/maintenance), but fdisk is > > a symlink to mfdisk. > > > > One rebuttal could easily be: but we want users to start using the > > new behavior even when they use 'fdisk', and I can understand that > > viewpoint also... oh well. > > There's that and the pollution of the command space. > It's a trade off what to do here. For lower level tools > in general you should try and not change behavior, > leaving that to higher level tools that more users interact with. > > >> In GParted I am changing the default alignment behaviour to align to > >> MiB, with an option to use cylinder alignment if a person so choses. > > I completely agree with that change in default as GParted is a > higher level tool. > > As for fdisk, it's debatable. > Personally I've scripted fdisk like echo "..." | fdisk > but I'm thinking my scripts might be OK with the change. > Also sfdisk is often used for scripting stuff instead. > > So I'd vote for making the change in default for fdisk. > It's not like it will introduce a subtle bug. > If it does bite then the issue should be obvious and > easy to work around. OK, those are good points. Go for it. :) --- ~Randy *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
