I'm not sure if it's doing anything wrong in particular, but I know
that before Andrea checked in the code with sfdisk, the line:
print $out qq(DISK_SIZE=`parted -s $devfs_dev print ) . q(| grep 'Disk
geometry for' | sed 's/^.*-//g' | sed 's/\..*$//' `) . qq(\n);
Will break SystemImager because the new version of parted includes the
unit (eg. MB) in the output.
Changing it to this solves that particular problem:
print $out qq(DISK_SIZE=`parted -s $devfs_dev unit MB print ) . q(|
grep 'Disk geometry for' | sed 's/^.*-//g' | sed 's/\..*$//' | sed
's/MB//' `) . qq(\n);
Cheers,
Bernard
________________________________
From: Erich Focht [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Mon 28/11/2005 00:59
To: oscar-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: Bernard Li; SIS Devel
Subject: Re: [Oscar-devel] FW: [Sisuite-devel] parted -> sfdisk change
On Sunday 27 November 2005 22:44, Bernard Li wrote:
Can somebody with ia64 try imaging a node with systemimager trunk?
If this
indeed breaks ia64 support we need to get this reverted.
There's no need to try, the switch to sfdisk does break ia64. I actually
thought Brian would revert this, but maybe I misunderstood his email.
I'd prefer to leave this with parted instead of mixing sfdisk and
parted. sfdisk is just too x86 specific. Is parted doing anything wrong?
Regards,
Erich
For your convenience I have already built the RPMs (which is from the
latest
trunk), so please test it out and let us know.
http://www.bcgsc.ca/downloads/oscar/systemimager/
(Note, this is a _development snapshot_ of 3.5.4, not the release)
Thanks,
Bernard
________________________________
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Brian
Elliott Finley
Sent: Wed 23/11/2005 12:37
To: Andrea Righi
Cc: SIS Devel
Subject: [Sisuite-devel] parted -> sfdisk change
I'm concerned that this change
http://svn.sisuite.org/diff.php?repname=systemimager&path=%2Ftrunk%2Flib%2FSystemImager%2FServer.pm&rev=3272&sc=1
will break things on platforms that use GPT partitioning, such as ia64,
which cannot use sfdisk. We could do a test and use sfdisk on a
specific set of archs, but it would be even better if we could patch
parted to "do the right thing".
I had discussions with the author of parted back when I added the
GPT/ia64 support to SystemImager, and I think he'd be willing to
consider a patch as long as it didn't break other functionality.
Cheers, -Brian
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