[Confirmed Bug] Parted does not notify kernel when modifying partition tables in partitionable md arrays

2011-05-13 Thread Christopher White
Greetings! After some serious back-and-forth on the md mailing list, it finally turned out to be a bug in (g)parted, which has been reproduced by two people on separate machines using the latest versions of (g)parted. Here's how to reproduce the bug: Step 1: Create a PARTITIONABLE md array w

[Confirmed Bug] Parted does not notify kernel when modifying partition tables in partitionable md arrays

2011-05-13 Thread Christopher White
Greetings! After some serious back-and-forth on the md mailing list, it finally turned out to be a bug in (g)parted, which has been reproduced by two people on separate machines using the latest versions of (g)parted. Here's how to reproduce the bug: Step 1: Create a PARTITIONABLE md array w

bug report; parted aborts on unpartioned SSD

2011-05-13 Thread Graydon
I've stuck a Intel SSD into a (brand new) Lenovo X120e; the SSD identifies as "ATA INTEL SSD SA2CW12"; it's one of the new 120 GB/25 nm process drives. The Fedora linux installer keeps dying on "you may need to initialize this drive"; best indication I've got is that this is because parted is dyin