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[PATCH 2/2] Fix filesystem detection on non 512 byte sectors

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From: "Brian C. Lane" <bcl <at> redhat.com>
To: Phillip Susi <psusi <at> ubuntu.com>
Cc: 16338 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16338: [PATCH 2/2] Fix filesystem detection on non 512 byte sectors
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 07:30:23 -0700

On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 09:51:18PM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote:
> On 03/03/2014 07:36 PM, Phillip Susi wrote:
> > On 03/03/2014 02:45 PM, Brian C. Lane wrote:
> >> Do our tests already cover all of these filesystems?
> > 
> > I think so but now that I look at this again, it looks like I
> > forgot to fix the tests.  Currently they skip on !512 byte sector
> > size.  I'll fix that.
> 
> So the best looking test to do this appears to be t1700-probe-fs.  The
> problem is that it uses a loop file instead of a real device, and so
> does not really simulate !512 byte sectors.  Also when I tried adding
> jfs, ntfs, and hfs, I found that hfs does not support -V ( version )
> to test if it is supported, and mkfs.ntfs exits with an error status
> when run with -V, and mkfs.jfs tries to do an interactive prompt to
> really use a file instead of a device, and redirecting stdin to
> /dev/null causes it to crash with a SIGABRT.  I suppose for the time
> being, this just may just have to be an untested feature.
> 
> I did update the patch for the recent addition of btrfs support, and
> so will follow up this email with that.
> 

Sounds good for now.

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Brian C. Lane | Anaconda Team | IRC: bcl #anaconda | Port Orchard, WA (PST8PDT)

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