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

[Joel Granados]

On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 04:20:27PM +0200, Joel Granados wrote:
> 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
> 
> I had forgotten about this one.  Will post a patch for this in a bit :)
> 
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > 6. [parted-devel] [PATCH] backlist md devices from device list
> >     - http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/parted-devel/2009-April/002781.html
> 
> Needs a some test modifications, but the fix works for me.
> 
> > 
> > 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
> 
> I don't think this doc addition is necessary.
> 
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> The gnu lists are temporarily unreachable, so I have not been able to
> read this issue.  I'll give it a day or two, until the accessibility
> comes back and address this one.
> 
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> I testes this one and everything seems to be fine.  As with 9. I could
> not see the mail.  Will check again in some days and see if it needs
> further testing.
> 
> To summarize:
> I think we are about 95% ready, with respect to the bug list.  The
> remaining 5% are the following action items:
> 
> 1. Make the md test a little better.  Might be a good idea to make
>    little modifications to the current state of the test and wait until
>    after the 1.9.0 release.
> 
> 2. Make sure 8 and 9 are solved.  This will have to wait for gnu mailing
>    lists to start working again.

8 turned out to be a patch to ignore the FS while resizing.  While this
might be useful for some cases, I would prefer to detect the fs and not
resize when the fs is larger than the end size.  I vote for not
including this patch

9 seems to be a strange partition state from the reporter.  I think the
solution is to unset the swap flag in parted.

> 
> 3. Some peer review on the whole patch set.
> 
> Regards.
> 
> -- 
> Joel Andres Granados
> Brno, Czech Republic, Red Hat.
> 
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Joel Andres Granados
Brno, Czech Republic, Red Hat.