[haiku-development] Re: Partition Table Woes (Was: Filesystem corruption and Alpha-1)

André Braga <meianoite@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Requiring a partitioning scheme to boot a disk that's shared with
> another OS is actually *added* complexity. The ability to completely
> define the boot volume knowing only its absolute offset and a couple
> fields of its superblock *simplifies* a lot of things, amongst them
> coexistence with "exotic" operating systems on "exotic" platforms.
> Resilience to a malformed (or unknown) partition table is just a nice
> consequence.

I can't agree with this at all. Having a known partitioning system *
secures* your data. It makes other systems aware of what is where on
disk, making sure they won't overwrite it with other stuff. It also
achieves that the disk looks the same on all systems - that certainly
avoids confusion, and helps organizing the disk.
If you prefer to remember the disk offsets instead, that's obviously
nothing to win a majority.

Bye,
   Axel.

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