Bug#463769: Fails on files (ie disk images)

2008-04-29 Thread Neil Brown
On Friday April 11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: also sprach Wakko Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008.04.11.1802 +0200]: That wasn't the point. The point was I wasn't able to examine the file. There's absolutely no reason that one has to attach it to a loopback device just to examine the md

Bug#463769: Fails on files (ie disk images)

2008-04-12 Thread Wakko Warner
martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Wakko Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008.04.11.2318 +0200]: Querying is the only thing I was after. The patch I made makes querying work. Wakko, is this querying-specific, and does the patch have no other effects? I don't think it's query specific due to

Bug#463769: Fails on files (ie disk images)

2008-04-11 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Wakko Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008.04.11.1802 +0200]: That wasn't the point. The point was I wasn't able to examine the file. There's absolutely no reason that one has to attach it to a loopback device just to examine the md superblock. md is multi-device. A file is not a

Bug#463769: Fails on files (ie disk images)

2008-04-11 Thread Wakko Warner
martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Wakko Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008.04.11.1802 +0200]: That wasn't the point. The point was I wasn't able to examine the file. There's absolutely no reason that one has to attach it to a loopback device just to examine the md superblock. md is

Bug#463769: Fails on files (ie disk images)

2008-04-11 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Wakko Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008.04.11.2318 +0200]: Querying is the only thing I was after. The patch I made makes querying work. Wakko, is this querying-specific, and does the patch have no other effects? Neil, can we integrate this upstream? The patch makes mdadm -E/D work

Bug#463769: Fails on files (ie disk images)

2008-02-02 Thread Wakko Warner
Package: mdadm Version: 2.6.4-1 Severity: minor Tags: patch I made an image of 2 disks that are part of a 2 disk raid0. These images are 320gb in size. I tried to use mdadm -E to give me some information about them which resulted in: # mdadm -E /junk/nail.md0-part1of2.img mdadm: cannot open