Re: testing and no release schedule

[Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>]

Hi, Bastian Blank wrote:

>> Thanks. Seems like a fun task for a lazy weekend...  ;-)
> 
> No, it isn't. s390 have variable sector sizes on DASDs and uses 4KiB by
> default and most of libparted simply break if the sector size is != 512,
> mostly the filesystem code.

Yowch. OK, fun task for a lazy month then.  :-/

(Before anybody asks: the docs I've seen seem to say that DASDs have an
effective minimum sector size of 1k. Set it to 512 and you waste half your
disk space.)

Is anybody working on fixing libparted?

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Matthias Urlichs