It seem that the only maintained source archive for GNU parted is
git://git.debian.org/git/parted/parted.git . Right ?
I managed to find that the bug was introduced by this commit:
commit c79d91ec71882a1673daae0482aa90c514c63cc1
Author: Jim Meyering <meyer...@redhat.com>
Date: Tue Mar 30 16:50:59 2010 +0200
dos: accommodate very small devices (useful for testing)
* libparted/labels/dos.c (_primary_constraint): Don't pass a negative
"device_length" to ped_geometry_init when the underlying device
has fewer sectors than a "cylinder".
diff --git a/libparted/labels/dos.c b/libparted/labels/dos.c
index 752f186..8679c49 100644
--- a/libparted/labels/dos.c
+++ b/libparted/labels/dos.c
@@ -1616,8 +1616,13 @@ _primary_constraint (const PedDisk* disk, const
PedCHSGeometry* bios_geom,
dev->length - min_geom->end))
return NULL;
} else {
- if (!ped_geometry_init (&start_geom, dev, cylinder_size,
- dev->length - cylinder_size))
+ /* Do not assume that length is larger than 1 cylinder's
+ worth of sectors. This is useful when testing with
+ a memory-mapped "disk" (a la scsi_debug) that is say,
+ 2048 sectors long. */
+ if (cylinder_size < dev->length
+ && !ped_geometry_init (&start_geom, dev, cylinder_size,
+ dev->length - cylinder_size))
return NULL;
if (!ped_geometry_init (&end_geom, dev, 0, dev->length))
return NULL;
I posted a message on the bug-par...@gnu.org, but it seem that there is
not a lot of developers on it, so I don't expect this will be handled
anytime soon.
The only basic idea I have right now, is to add a "-t" option to force
to not call ped_geometry_init (&start_geom, ...) if cylinder_size <
dev->length when using parted with a memory-mapped device for testing
purpose. There is maybe a better logic to handle all of that, but I
don't know this code good enough to see it. Where can I find a test case
with a memory-mapped device that needed this commit ?
Jean-Christian de Rivaz
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