Hi,

I support this demand. Instead of whining, could you check if your partitions still work with ReactOS?
As far as I know, this should not affect small disks. So, try and complain after.

Furthermore, I would like to precise that we cannot stay 15 years back just because the switch is somehow a pain. Everyone may have to recreate its partitions. You have to understand that we cannot pretend to provide a modern OS with a deprecated architecture that can hardly leave closely to other OSes. This is definitely not selfish.

Thanks Eric for helping  bringing ReactOS into a more suitable shape.

Finally, I would like to point that starting a drama is pointless. We are currently in a critical step in the OS development, we have to work all together and not fighting one against the others.

So, please test first, and then, depending on your ability to use (or not) your old partitions with the new geometry, we will see how we can help you.

Regards,
Pierre

PS: Regarding communication step, nightly builds tester should read what changed before testing and then be aware of the problem. For release, a note can be put into the release announcement.
PPS: If ReactOS is still considered as alpha, this is typically for such cases where a single change can have a real impact on data. We cannot wait for beta or even stable (not to speak about gold) to apply such changes.

On 11/28/2011 12:22 PM, Javier Agustìn Fernàndez Arroyo wrote:
"But before this, do we really have the problem?" - Aleksey Bragin

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Magnus Johnsson <magnusjjj@gmail.com> wrote:
"No drama please!" - Aleksey Bragin


2011/11/28 Ged Murphy <gedmurphy.maillists@gmail.com>:
> Do you have to work at being this rude and disrespectful or does it just
> come naturally to you?
> This is the a great example of why the reactos forums are such a nasty place
> to visit.
> You must be quite proud.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ros-dev-bounces@reactos.org [mailto:ros-dev-bounces@reactos.org] On
> Behalf Of caemyr@myopera.com
> Sent: 27 November 2011 23:07
> To: ReactOS Development List
> Subject: Re: [ros-dev] HDD Geometry switch
>
> Also, knowing the consequences, did you bother to issue any message to our
> community, to inform them about this?? Not every ReactOS user is subsribed
> to ros-dev.
>
> Ah wait... you ignored that as well. You will let others handle the problem
> as usual.
>
> I have 5 sets for testing, 2 real hardware and 3 vm. Each one with two
> partitions, one for ros and other for all the installers and drivers.
>
> So now, whenever i cross the border of this change, i will have to wipe all,
> recreate the partitions and copy the stuff back? It will take no less than
> half an hour for VM. On real hardware, just the copying can take up to 1
> hour.
>
> Do you value your time available to spend on ReactOS? Then perhaps you could
> also think about others as well?
>
> On Sunday, November 27, 2011 4:48 PM, "Eric Kohl" <eric.kohl@t-online.de>
> wrote:
>> caemyr@myopera.com wrote:
>> > Is the new geometry backward-compatible? If i recreate the partitions,
> will they be visible when i regress test revisions before 54511?
>> >
>>
>> This is a one-way road. If you want to test older revisions, you must
>> delete and re-create partitions again.
>>
>>
>> Regards
>> Eric
>>
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> Caemyr
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