[parted-devel] Parted Stuff that needs fixing before 1.8.9

[Joel Granados]

Some comments on two issues.  I share them with the list now, so I don't
forget in the near future when I am posting all the patches for the
bugs.


On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:28:15AM +0200, Joel Granados wrote:
> Hello list.
> 
> In my continuing effort to make 1.8.9 happen I have decided to make a
> summary of what needs to be fixed for 1.8.9.  The idea is for 1.8.9 to
> be released when all these issues have been resolved.  If I miss any
> bugs issues that are important to someone, feel free to scream at me :)
> 
> Stuff for 1.8.9
> 1. Do not clobber the BootCode in GPT PMBRs
>     - http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2008-December/002473.html
>     - http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2008-12/msg00015.html
> 
> 2. Patch: Fix gpt_read to read all of the partition entries correctly
>     - http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2008-December/002465.html
>     - http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/attachments/20081202/b7c0528d/attachment.txt
> 
> 3. [PATCH] fix for mklabel in parted
>     - http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2009-January/002739.html
> 
> 4. [parted-devel] Error on resize FAT16 with 64k cluster
>     - http://parted.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/ticket/207
>     * This one needs testing.  There is a nice test in the link above.

This turned out to be a reproducible error.  I spent a considerable
amount of time trying to come up with a test related to this issue. My
approach was to create a device-mapper device and try to reproduce what
I had seen in test with "real" devices.  Since parted has a different
code path with device-mapper devices, this was not possible.
With this in mind I decided not to create any test for this patch.

> 
> 5. Unable to satisfy all constraints on the partition after fix
>         partition order with fdisk
>     - http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2009-03/msg00009.html
>     * This one needs testing.  The link above contains info.

I could not reproduce this one.  To the best of my knowledge it should
already be addressed as the reporter is using a parted version that is
oldish.


Still 6 issues to go.  I will hopefully finish them by the end of the
week and we can begin the 1.8.9 release process.

> 
> 6. [parted-devel] [PATCH] backlist md devices from device list
>     - http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2009-April/002781.html
> 
> 7. [parted-devel] [PATCH] document that primary keyword is not supported on sun label
>     - http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2009-April/002782.html
> 
> 8. New Italian PO file for 'parted' (version 1.8.8)
>     - http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2009-01/msg00010.html
>     * This one needs no action.  bootstrap takes care of this
>       automatically 
> 
> 9. ignore the filesystem
>     - http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2009-02/msg00009.html
>     * It needs testing.  No testing available AFAIK.
> 
> 10. parted detects reiserfs root partition as linux-swap
>     - http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-parted/2009-05/msg00006.html
>     * Also needs test and has no patch.  I think its worth
>       investigating.
> 

Regards.

-- 
Joel Andres Granados
Brno, Czech Republic, Red Hat.