Re: To partman or not to partman (was Re: release status)

2004-02-29 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 08:11:42AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): What say you gentlemen? Based on what I know of partman and with newbie installation in mind, I would definitely say go fo partman as default on i386 and as an option on other archs

Re: To partman or not to partman (was Re: release status)

2004-02-29 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-02-29 14:25]: Based on what I know of partman and with newbie installation in mind, I would definitely say go fo partman as default on i386 and as an option on other archs (except powerpc if it works OK for them?). Why do you say except powerpc ?

Re: To partman or not to partman (was Re: release status)

2004-02-29 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Sven Luther ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Read the sentence again. He says he considers it the default for i386 and maybe powerpc. Ok, then, sounds nice for me. Yes, this is what I intended to write. The idea isĀ : the two archs were the newbie ratio may be high are i386 and powerpc.

Re: To partman or not to partman (was Re: release status)

2004-02-29 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 01:19:35PM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-02-29 14:25]: Based on what I know of partman and with newbie installation in mind, I would definitely say go fo partman as default on i386 and as an option on other archs (except

Re: To partman or not to partman (was Re: release status)

2004-02-28 Thread Joey Hess
.. That is indeed the question of the weekend. We need to decide this by the end of this weekend to have time for last minute fixes on whichever system we choose. I feel that we should decide this on a per-architecture basis if necessary. I do not want to see arches like sparc have to work to

Re: To partman or not to partman (was Re: release status)

2004-02-28 Thread Andre Luis Lopes
On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 07:37:52PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: snip Given everything that parted offers, I am willing to take the risk, make it default now, work on it furiously, and revisit this in 1.5 weeks. If we made the wrong decision, we can then backpedal to the old partitioner. What

Re: To partman or not to partman (was Re: release status)

2004-02-28 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): What say you gentlemen? Based on what I know of partman and with newbie installation in mind, I would definitely say go fo partman as default on i386 and as an option on other archs (except powerpc if it works OK for them?). It's some time since I tested

Re: To partman or not to partman (was Re: release status)

2004-02-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 10:35:11PM -0300, Andre Luis Lopes wrote: On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 07:45:47PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree, and deciding one way or the other on partman will help, since we can drop the other one to a low priority and out of memory.

Re: To partman or not to partman (was Re: release status)

2004-02-26 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On 26.II.2004 at 10:16 Sven Luther wrote: So, please help in adding LVM/RAID support in libparted, and it will be supported. Acording to an install report (#233532) libparted automaticaly detects the LVM devices even now. For example if an user configures LVM using lvmcfg and afterwards from

To partman or not to partman (was Re: release status)

2004-02-25 Thread Nathanael Nerode
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree, and deciding one way or the other on partman will help, since we can drop the other one to a low priority and out of memory. Well, I think partman rocks. Notably, a lot of people working on extra architectures and subarchitectures appear to be hoping that

Re: To partman or not to partman (was Re: release status)

2004-02-25 Thread Andre Luis Lopes
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 07:45:47PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree, and deciding one way or the other on partman will help, since we can drop the other one to a low priority and out of memory. Well, I think partman rocks. Notably, a lot of people working on

Re: To partman or not to partman (was Re: release status)

2004-02-25 Thread Thorsten Sauter
* Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-02-26 01:45]: | [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I agree, and deciding one way or the other on partman will help, since | we can drop the other one to a low priority and out of memory. | | Well, I think partman rocks. Notably, a lot of people working on extra