Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 06:32:08PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote: >> Colin Watson wrote: >> > There's no reason to impose any particular limit on loop labels, since >> > they just represent a single large partition. Sector counts over 2^32 >> > are needed for large RAID arrays. Change the limit to 2^64 since that's >> > the upper limit imposed by libparted and it saves us implementing the >> > limit functions separately. >> > >> > * libparted/labels/pt-limit.gperf: Change limits on "loop" to 2^64. >> > * tests/t9021-maxima.sh: Update for the new loop limit. >> >> Thanks for the patch. >> Do you know if this fixes a regression? I.e., did it ever work? >> If so, it might be worthwhile to dig up where the bug >> was introduced. > > I'm not absolutely certain, but I think it was broken by commit > 2dbc645c39d6ef736dcf0e1825a6801f33371f65, which would make it a > regression in Parted 2.1.
I thought so, too, but hadn't bisected (a few change sets in the vicinity don't compile). I've adjusted the commit log to reflect the probable origin, and added a note in the NEWS entry. Pushed. _______________________________________________ parted-devel mailing list parted-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/parted-devel
