On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 15:22:03 +0100 "K.G." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, the sector size is a known problem in Parted. Until recently we > didn't receive much reports about it, because probably about > 99.9999999% of people are using 512 bytes sectors. But now multiples > of 512 bytes are beginning to be seen sometimes (in raid systems? > very big disk?) and Parted is mostly unusable when that happens. > I believe this should be fixed in the whole program, but unfortunately > this probably would involve a lot of work. As a starter, I'd suggest fixing only the parts for which people send a complaint. > Interesting. I guess this divides data structures in 2 sets: old ones > which aren't aware of the logical vs physical disk block size issue > will only consider logical sizes - and new ones like GPT which handle > it fine with size fields and backward compatibility with systems that > don't probe the physical sector size, right? > (indeed there's a third set: the ones that just assume 512 bytes > sectors) At least the partition boundaries can be set correctly by Parted in any case. > As I said before, disk_gpt.c is only a small part of the problem... :/ I'm onto fixing the GPT part, should be done soon. Leslie -- PGP-KID: 0x52D70289
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