Parted - GNU Partition Editor [PSARC/2009/145 FastTrack timeout 03/06/2009]

[Mark Logan]

Nicolas Williams wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 03:44:51PM -0800, Mark Logan wrote:
>   
>> Sebastien Roy wrote:
>>     
>>> You probably want something other than Volatile if this is meant to be
>>> used programatically by other software subsystems.
>>>  
>>>       
>> I see your point, but isn't the rule 3rd party source == volatile?
>>     
>
> Not really.  Some FOSS is Volatile, some is Committed.  It all depends
> on how volatile the FOSS's interfaces are, how frequent their major
> releases, and how willing you are to deal with shipping and supporting
> multiple versions should you go with something better than Volatile and
> should the upstream community make a backwards-incompatible release that
> we need to update to.
>
> If parted is for interactive use, then Volatile will do.  If it's for
> scripting, then Volatile is annoying, and if parted is truly valuable
> then we can add value by going with Uncommitted.  Your call.
>
> Nico
>   

Thanks for the clarification. I will change it to Uncommitted.

Mark