Another nice thing to 1.8.9 is the latest patch from Colin to improve ext4 support. I think it is also required.
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 7:00 AM, Petr Uzel <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:28:15AM +0200, Joel Granados wrote: >> Hello list. >> >> In my continuing effort to make 1.8.9 happen I have decided to make a >> summary of what needs to be fixed for 1.8.9. The idea is for 1.8.9 to >> be released when all these issues have been resolved. If I miss any >> bugs issues that are important to someone, feel free to scream at me :) > > Hi, > > what about this one: > > - parted does not preserve bootcode in extended partition > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg02139.html > > I know the proposed patch isn't ideal, > >> When creating new extended partition (not modifying existing one), >> the bootcode is not filled with zeroes and will contain some random >> stuff instead (not sure if this might cause some kind of problems). > > but on the other hand, no one seems to be aware of any troubles this > may cause (moreover, parted shipped with SuSE has this patch and is > seems OK). > > > -- > Best regards / s pozdravem > > Petr Uzel, Packages maintainer > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > SUSE LINUX, s.r.o. e-mail: [email protected] > Lihovarská 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 964 > 190 00 Prague 9 fax: +420 284 028 951 > Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz > > _______________________________________________ > parted-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/parted-devel > -- Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems E-mail: [email protected] http://www.ossystems.com.br Mobile: +55 53 9981-7854 http://projetos.ossystems.com.br _______________________________________________ parted-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/parted-devel
