-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 01/28/2014 04:41 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Well some people don't want to do so... whether that makes sense > or not.. is probably up to them :) Sure, but they are just as likely to continue to be ignorant of this type code and never use it. > Sure and that's likely the best approach,... but there is not only > Linux ;-) So are there any other operating systems that want to or already are using these codes? > Again... other systems may use it... there is the ID for the ESP, > which is definitely used... and you never know which other system > (other OS, bootloader) comes a long and tries to do something based > on it. The possibility that someone some day may use it isn't a good reason to add it. The ESP has a special ID because the UEFI standard requires it, and that causes enough trouble as it is. > Anyway.. as I said... no one is forced to use it at all... it just > sounds better to have something defined that to leave that open and > have people choose anything... > > And this mail was merely to inform fdisk upstream that these values > were now "chosen". Unless someone is doing the work to actually be able to use them then I don't see any point in adding them. I also don't see any point in a code for LUKS, though pure a pure dm-crypt code would at least have a use. > Well but that exception just proves my point.. that feature was > deprecated for good reason as it caused many issues... and you > cannot guarantee that no one else (e.g. outside the FLOSS world) > comes along and adds some other seemingly smart functionality... > and at least one could hope that such someone wouldn't touch any > IDs which clearly don't "belong" to him. Ummm... how does it prove your point? You admit that it was a bad idea that caused many issues... and somehow that makes repeating the same mistake a good idea? > Aprart from that one would usually rather try not to run around > shouting that one has an encrypted container... Yet you propose doing exactly that via the partition type code. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJS6FDQAAoJEI5FoCIzSKrwnHgH/35xp4IqiMtYVeoY6+B5qyZk 1aY3C3RirnPtVw9xgCWiVCX+rA/x1fyKfmu1VO7SMcyPCY0tSHMjj6S5WVgPM0g9 9PNTc6lr0EGzCcEPyFl2/VU9QNcoorUR3/hfuTzEo01klh73jHxRkIsi80qbtxA3 e5g+96h092myovWZyqrFcgYyLoXcM7VreUdIPBBKyGlDRf0WrGZTnBVZW1lo/6X8 ny35FdOlWD1zap0cMNmUDLcXF2VXA38e7thlFbDH4CiuvjoUyTZfpXr0E2f6hsf0 s/QWuCIgygD6ObYrcfMgsxdsNG9+QGfc7KIL6T0hhjDur7U4G1jYLnM0evhM0PQ= =x1QU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
