Bugs item #311673, was changed at 2009-05-15 01:04 by Thomas Schwinge You can respond by visiting: https://alioth.debian.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=411594&aid=311673&group_id=30628
Status: Open Priority: 1 Submitted By: Marc Dequènes (duck) Assigned to: Nobody (None) Summary: partition table is not reloaded after changes Category: None Group: None Resolution: None Initial Comment: Using parted i was able to create a partition table to a new disk (empty KVM disk), create a ext2 partition, but could not mkfs before reboot. I don't know if this is parted-related or not. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Thomas Schwinge (tschwinge-guest) Date: 2009-05-17 22:19 Message: I already experienced this with fdisk before. With fdisk and friends the problem is that we don't support the BLKRRPART IOCTL, which is used on Linux to tell the kernel to re-read the disk's partition table. parted can also uses this interface on Linux, but for GNU Hurd, the corresponding function, libparted/arch/gnu.c:gnu_disk_commit, doesn't do anything at all. The infrastructure in GNU Mach is already there, linux/src/drivers/block/ide.c:ide_ioctl<BLKRRPART> and linux/src/drivers/scsi/sd_ioctl.c:sd_ioctl<BLKRRPART>, but the IOCTL needs to be routed from libparted through glibc's Hurd IOCTL interface, through Hurd's libstore, to GNU Mach. This is not a huge project, and actually one that is suitable for someone who wants to start with hacking the system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://alioth.debian.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=411594&aid=311673&group_id=30628 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
