Re: Well, there goes Windows!

On Aug 21, 2011, at 6:34 PM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
>>=20
>>> The regular partitioning editor only commits early in this =
particular case, and asks about each subpartition tree separately with a =
big scary dialog box. In the spirit of the autopartitioner, it makes one =
large scary dialog, and always runs in early commit mode instead of =
potentially showing many scary dialogs about partitions the user doesn't =
necessarily even know about. This behavior could be changed, but I think =
is the most friendly for the case in question: namely, "I want to blow =
away everything and let the installer handle all partitioning details by =
itself".
>> What about inserting a special class for doing commit/undo. The GEOM
>> simply keeps all modifications in memory and 1) forgets everything on
>> an undo operation or 2) writes all dirty sectors on a commit. This
>> could be used even instead of the gpart-private support, which also
>> removes the quirk for the null scheme.
>>=20
>=20
> Where would this class go? If it went below gpart (between gpart and =
userland), then it seems like we would lose the ability of gpart to =
validate its parameters. Who would be responsible for inserting this =
GEOM into the stack?

Between the disk GEOM and the gpart GEOM. The gpart utility would
still interact with the GEOM is before.

--=20
Marcel Moolenaar
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