Well, there goes Windows!

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Aug 21, 2011, at 6:34 PM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
>> 
>>> 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.
>> 
> 
> 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.

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Marcel Moolenaar
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