Subject: bug#21954: closed (Re: bug#21954: physical versus virtual disks)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2015 02:24:02 +0000

Your bug report

#21954: physical versus virtual disks

which was filed against the parted package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#21954: physical versus virtual disks
From: Phillip Susi <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
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 [email-masked].

Subject: physical versus virtual disks
From: David Billsbrough <[email-masked]>
To: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
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