[parted-devel] [PATCH] libparted: Fixed bug in initializing and re-reading partition table of FBA devices

Phillip Susi psusi at ubuntu.com
Thu Nov 21 14:59:31 UTC 2013


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On 10/31/2013 10:33 AM, Phillip Susi wrote:
> On 10/31/2013 6:16 AM, Nageswara R Sastry wrote:
>> dasd_read functionality having 280 lines of code out of which
>> 170 lines of code for FBA kind of disks.
> 
>> The dasd_read's FBA code can not be copied so easily, because it 
>> takes care of similar disks and many other conditions. I feel 
>> better to call dasd_read from dasd_alloc in the case of FBA
>> disk.
> 
> You can't do that since it reads the current label off the disk,
> which is still blank when alloc is called.


It's been a while, so I was just wondering if you got this ironed out yet?
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