GNU bug report logs - #21954
physical versus virtual disks

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From: David Billsbrough <DBillsbrough <at> softnas.com>
To: "bug-parted <at> gnu.org" <bug-parted <at> gnu.org>
Subject: physical versus virtual disks
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 17:07:53 +0000

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This is an ongoing chat between a systems administrator and a applications developer:

It is in regards to what is an Amazon S3 'bucket' and how looks like a hard drive in the cloud.

As the admin I think that it existence does not give a S3 bucket every attribute of a real physical hard drive.

So if I ran the parted command or any other GPT aware utility against the dev files the point to a connected S3 bucket and tried to create a GUID partition table (GPT) and tried to preserve that configuration across the restarting of virtual instances that there would be no guarantees of it persistence.

Thoughts?

Where in a virtual disk is the structures that store MBR, GPT, Inode structures and reserve areas for bad block data that is contained on a real physical hard drive?

regards,

David

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From: Phillip Susi <psusi <at> ubuntu.com>
To: 21954-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21954: physical versus virtual disks
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 21:23:12 -0500

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On 11/18/2015 12:07 PM, David Billsbrough wrote:
> Where in a virtual disk is the structures that store MBR, GPT,
> Inode structures and reserve areas for bad block data that is
> contained on a real physical hard drive?

Obviously the same place they are on a real disk, otherwise it
wouldn't be much of a "virtual" disk now would it?

Closing this bug report since it is not a bug report at all.  For
discussion see parted-devel <at> lists.alioth.debian.org.


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