Bug#474698: partman-base: Inconsistent output if sector size != 512 bytes

[Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>]

(No need to CC me on replies to the BR.)

On Tuesday 08 April 2008, Ferenc Wagner wrote:
> I could go on to replace PED_SECTOR_SIZE_DEFAULT with dev->sector_size
> throughout partman-base/parted_server.c, but I'm getting suspicious.
> Isn't there a good reason for this state of affairs?

Looks like this could possibly be a bug introduced by revision r37468 [1], 
which changed PED_SECTOR_SIZE to PED_SECTOR_SIZE_DEFAULT (partman-base 84). 
Looks like that change was made for compatibility with libparted 1.7.

Whether changing it to dev->sector_size is correct depends of course on what 
the actual definition of PED_SECTOR_SIZE was in prior libparted versions.

It could also be that the problem has always been there and that the use of 
PED_SECTOR_SIZE was always not correct (though maybe only in some places).

This certainly needs to be checked very carefully. A good start could be to 
check whether the Sarge installer also has the bug as that has older 
versions of libparted and partman-base.

Otavio: you did that change; any comments?

Cheers,
FJP

[1] svn diff -r37467:37468 | less