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Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/2] support for CMS-formatted disks on the s/390 archite
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Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/2] support for CMS-formatted disks on the s/390 architecture |
Date: |
Sat, 17 Apr 2010 17:10:04 +0200 |
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?
- [RFC/PATCH 0/2] support for CMS-formatted disks on the s/390 architecture, Jonathan Nieder, 2010/04/17
- [RFC/PATCH 1/2] dasd: take sector size into account when calculating starting block, Jonathan Nieder, 2010/04/17
- [RFC/PATCH 2/2] dasd: add read-only support for CMS labeled minidisks, Jonathan Nieder, 2010/04/17
- Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/2] support for CMS-formatted disks on the s/390 architecture, Adam Thornton, 2010/04/17
- Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/2] support for CMS-formatted disks on the s/390 architecture,
Jim Meyering <=
- Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/2] support for CMS-formatted disks on the s/390 architecture, Stephen Powell, 2010/04/17
- Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/2] support for CMS-formatted disks on the s/390 architecture, Jim Meyering, 2010/04/17
- Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/2] support for CMS-formatted disks on the s/390 architecture, Stephen Powell, 2010/04/19
- Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/2] support for CMS-formatted disks on the s/390 architecture, Jim Meyering, 2010/04/20
- Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/2] support for CMS-formatted disks on the s/390 architecture, Jim Meyering, 2010/04/21
- Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/2] support for CMS-formatted disks on the s/390 architecture, Stephen Powell, 2010/04/21
- Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/2] support for CMS-formatted disks on the s/390 architecture, Jim Meyering, 2010/04/21
- Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/2] support for CMS-formatted disks on the s/390 architecture, Stephen Powell, 2010/04/21
- Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/2] support for CMS-formatted disks on the s/390 architecture, Stephen Powell, 2010/04/21
Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/2] support for CMS-formatted disks on the s/390 architecture, Stephen Powell, 2010/04/17