From: Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: "Trela, Maciej" <Maciej.Trela@intel.com>,
"linux-raid@vger.kernel.org" <linux-raid@vger.kernel.org>,
"Williams, Dan J" <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
"Ciechanowski, Ed" <ed.ciechanowski@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/1] [mdadm] Add partition checks when creating a new array
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:03:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091120170350.GA20882@maude.comedia.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19196.51508.947560.851117@notabene.brown>
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 01:49:24PM +1100, Neil Brown wrote:
>Is there a good library that we could use?
>libparted might be a possibility, but it seems rather over-weight.
>/lib/libparted-1.9.so.12.0.0 is larger than /sbin/mdadm !!!
>
>Are there any other libraries for reading different partition tables?
>I guess we can open-code it if we have to but I'd be happy if another
>solution could be found.
i don't think so,
but there are two tools
partx from util-linux
kpartix from multipath-tools (which is based on the former)
so we could either grab code from those or just invoke
partx -l (i believe every distro installs util-linux by default)
L.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-20 17:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-12 12:39 [patch 1/1] [mdadm] Add partition checks when creating a new array Trela, Maciej
2009-11-13 2:49 ` Neil Brown
2009-11-19 15:40 ` Trela, Maciej
2009-12-08 5:10 ` Neil Brown
2009-11-20 17:03 ` Luca Berra [this message]
2009-11-20 17:22 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2009-11-20 17:25 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2009-12-12 22:50 ` Asdo
2009-12-14 11:33 ` Trela, Maciej
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2009-11-05 12:01 Trela, Maciej
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