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Re: partman - s390 support



On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 08:44:38AM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 11:18:25PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > In _device_get_sector_size, it properly gets them with BLKSSZGET but
> > > never sets the right value in the PedDevice struct.
> > 
> > Err, where is the value phisically stored ? On the disks partition table ?
> > On the disk partition entry ? Or is this a value the kernel knows about
> > and tells userland in some way ? 
> 
> The linux kernel provides an ioctl to get this value (BLKSSZGET). It is
> used in the function _device_get_sector_size, which also raises the
> annoying message about this value. But the sector_size entry in the
> PedDevice structure is never set to this value.

Ok, it is not stored on disk then. I will see what i can do about this,
but i have not big hopes that this can be changed quickly in 1.6 of
libparted, not sure though.

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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