Re: Parted 1.6.21

[Sven Luther]

On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 02:55:12PM +1100, Andrew Clausen wrote:
> Hi all,

Well, it seems this new rekease broke the hfs patch again, altough only
configure and libparted/fs_hfs/Makefile.in are affected, and those are
generated files which should maybe not be part of the patch in the first
place.

Anyway, i guess it would be much easier if the hfs patches where now finally
integrated into the main parted source code, what exactly is stopping that
from happening ? That patch-set has been in debian and i hear gentoo, since
ages, so i suppose it is ok to use. Maybe some copyright work is needed
though.

> Changes:
> * libparted/disk_sun.c (sun_alloc, sun_read, sun_write): fixed
>   cylinder recording stuff.  pcylcount is now 2 more, and ncyl is now
>   2 less than it was before.

He, nice, this obsolets my sun_disklabel patch in debian.

> * libparted/filesys.c (ped_file_system_clobber): removed a useless
>   (always-thrown) assertion for file system support for clobbering.

And this removes my no-clobber patch.

> * libparted/linux.c (_disk_sync_part_table): removed duplicate error message.
> * libparted/linux.c (_device_get_part_path): only treat the device as
>   devfs if it has /disc on the end.

I wonder if this may obsolet the debian devfs patch ? 

> * libparted/linux.c (_device_probe_type): sets the type to
>   PED_DEVICE_UNKNOWN on block devices that don't fall into the
>   standard categories.  This makes libparted correctly update
>   the kernel's view of partition tables, etc.

Sounds really cool :)

Friendly,

Sven Luther