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[openbeosstorage] Re: Amiga RDB

  • From: "Ingo Weinhold" <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeosstorage@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 20:25:15 +0200 CEST
"Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> "Ingo Weinhold" <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > We should give Amiga RDB the higher priority, because it's 
> > > superior 
> > > to the Intel partitioning scheme - but OTOH almost no one uses 
> > > it, 
> > > and 
> > > it would slow down booting, so I wouldn't even consider doing 
> > > that 
> > > :-)
> > > So how does your ignoring side feel about this? :)
> > Confused basically. Do you want to ignore Amiga RDB, because 
> > virtually 
> > noone is using it, or ignore that it would be possible to have both 
> > RDB 
> > and Intel style partitions on the same disk?
> 
> Ignore the fact that this would be possible, and give the Amiga RDB a 
> lower priority on x86 systems. For PPC, we should give it a higher 
> priority due to the fact that the Pegasos seems to use it as its 
> native 
> format.

Ah, OK.

> Ah well, I think we can tune this stuff later as well - we should 
> have 
> everything up and running first, anyway :-)

Sure. :-)

CU, Ingo






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