Colin Watson wrote: > The blacklisting of md devices in > http://git.debian.org/?p=parted/parted.git;a=commit;h=f94e08bdb4ba0fa1b9fd35509e04c2d9ee84ff80 > breaks RAID support in the Debian installer, because we're expecting to > be able to walk all devices libparted knows about and find /dev/md0 etc. > after setting up arrays. While we don't actually want to attempt to put > partition tables on these devices, it's still useful to have libparted > recognise these devices; there are things it can do other than creating > partition tables ... > > How about this patch instead (against next, but should be pretty close > to master as well)? We use "loop" labels as fake partition tables for > things that are essentially just a single filesystem directly on a > disk-like block device, so it makes sense never to apply partition table > changes to those. ... > Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:43:42 +0100 > Subject: [PATCH] Recognise md devices again, but understand that they can't > be partitioned > > * libparted/arch/linux.c (_skip_entry): Don't skip "md" devices. > (_has_partitions): New function; "loop" labels can't be partitioned. > (_blkpg_add_partition, _blkpg_remove_partition, _dm_add_partition, > _have_blkpg): Don't attempt to apply partition table changes to > unpartitionable devices.
This looks fine. I have rebased next and pushed it there, for starters. Thanks! _______________________________________________ parted-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/parted-devel
