[haiku-commits] Re: haiku: hrev48316 - in build: config_headers jam/packages
- From: Jessica Hamilton <jessica.l.hamilton@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 01:40:29 +1300
On Tuesday, 18 November 2014, Adrien Destugues <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 12:29:05PM +0100, Ithamar R. Adema wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <javascript:;>>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Can't we just make our partitioning systems less wordy about the
> obvious
> > > failures (like: I don't understand this partition)?
> > > Unless there is some actual failure, there shouldn't really be any
> output.
> >
> >
> > A real failure should have output of course, but wouldn't it make more
> > sense for these modules to only output information on _success_? Not
> > recognizing a partition format for these add-ons should be more common
> then
> > actually finding a match ;)
> > The only exception there is the intel/gpt situation, where both will
> > recognize, but the intel one already checks for GPT and outputs a
> one-liner
> > saying basically "recognized but ignoring"...
>
> This is not the only exception. Some audio CDs with a data track are
> recognized as valid by both CDDA, ISO9660, and Session. Session has an
> higher priority, and reexposes two partitions, which ISO9660 and CDDA
> can scan again to find their respective data.
>
> Mixed ISO9660/HFS CDs are also possible. The ISO9660 filesystem
> leaves the first 32K on the disk free to allow another filesystem header
> to be written there. So in some extreme cases, a CD could be identified
> succesfully by 3 filesystems and one partitionning system.
>
I might be able to acquire such a disc. At previous workplace, Vectorworks
installation DVD is similar; just doesn't have audio.
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