Jonathan Nieder wrote: > The inimitable Stephen Powell sent something like the two patches > below to <http://bugs.debian.org/578097>. It seems that they teach > the dasd driver in parted to handle CMS-labeled partitions, which are > a little more flexible and probably more common than the LDL format > libparted already supports. > > Unfortunately, I do not have a specimen to experiment with, so I > cannot say if my whitespace tweaks and so on broke the patch. > Stephen, would it be possible to put up an image of a tiny partition > to try this out with? > > The support is for reading only because that is what is most needed. > I don’t imagine there would be any major technical obstacles to > teaching parted to write these partitions, too. > > Thoughts? > Jonathan > > Stephen Powell (2): > dasd: take sector size into account when calculating starting block > dasd: add read-only support for CMS labeled minidisks > > NEWS | 7 +++++++ > include/parted/vtoc.h | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > libparted/labels/dasd.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++---- > libparted/labels/fdasd.c | 15 ++++++++------- > 4 files changed, 78 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
Thanks for preparing those. Can either of you outline a test for each that would fail before application of a patch and succeed after it? _______________________________________________ bug-parted mailing list bug-parted@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-parted
