Karel Zak wrote: > On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 05:20:21PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: >> Would you please add a NEWS entry? >> If it's not too much to ask, would you also add a test > > Fixed, see below. > >> Good timing, by the way. >> I'm expecting to make the parted-2.2 release early next week. > > Sorry for delay, I was busy with some other work.
Thanks! Good timing. I'm hoping to release parted-2.2 RSN. > Subject: [PATCH] sun: initialize basic label fields > > libparted completely ignores basic fields (version, nparts and sanity) > in the sun VTOC, then for example fdisk prints warnings for such > labels: > > # fdisk -lu /dev/sdb > Detected sun disklabel with wrong version [0x00000000]. > Detected sun disklabel with wrong sanity [0x00000000]. > Detected sun disklabel with wrong num_partitions [0]. > > It seems that the current libparted sun support follows old Linux > kernel code, but the code was changed 3 years ago (see kernel commit > 3961bae0ac030a70ae2e0578270203889021f1a1). > > Note that the number of partitions (nparts) is optional for Linux > kernel, but fdisk(8) strictly requires SUN_DISK_MAXPARTITIONS (=8) > there. This patch sets nparts to SUN_DISK_MAXPARTITIONS rather then > use a real number of partitions. > > The patch includes a new regression test for Sun label. I'll review it later today. _______________________________________________ parted-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/parted-devel
