[openbeosstorage] Re: My Usual Confusion
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeosstorage@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 00:08:22 +0200 CEST
Tyler Dauwalder <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Either the partitioning
> > > systems need to know how to map their types given a
> > > DiskDeviceType.h
> > > type, or the file systems need to know their correct partition
> > > types
> > > for each partitioning system...
> > The latter sounds very scary. Then we would lose the nice
> > independence
> > of partitioning and file systems. Given a DiskDeviceType.h type,
> > the
> > partitioning system should try its best to map it to an actual
> > representation.
> So then, shouldn't the partitioning system be able to pick a type at
> initialization time like I originally intended?
Since those problems are probably limited to only one file system
(FAT), can't we just make an ugly special case for it? It would be nice
if that could be done in the file system itself, since that one is the
culprit here.
Adios...
Axel.
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