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

[Phillip Susi]

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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.


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