From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>, xfs mailing list <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] mkfs: don't try to detect filesystems on regular files via blkid
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:43:25 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B6B235D.5060903@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B6B087F.80901@sandeen.net>
Eric Sandeen wrote:
> from RH bug
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=561870
>
> # dd if=/dev/zero of=k bs=1MB count=2 seek=20; mkfs.xfs k
> # mkfs.xfs: probe of k failed, cannot detect existing filesystem.
> # mkfs.xfs: Use the -f option to force overwrite.
>
> blkid fails to do a probe of a regular file.
>
> I wish blkid would cope with this, but for now it might
> be better to just turn it off.
>
> I kept the size==0 check just in case we stumble on a 0-sized
> device, blkid doesn't like that either...
>
> Reported-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
> ---
OK NAK on that, hch has a better patch, we were driving blkid wrong.
-Eric
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-04 19:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-04 16:34 [PATCH] mkfs: don't try to detect filesystems on regular files via blkid Eric Sandeen
2010-02-04 16:46 ` Jim Meyering
2010-02-04 16:54 ` Eric Sandeen
2010-02-04 17:48 ` [PATCH V2] " Eric Sandeen
2010-02-04 19:43 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2010-02-04 19:40 ` [PATCH] mkfs.xfs fix detection of empty devices Christoph Hellwig
2010-02-04 20:15 ` Eric Sandeen
2010-02-04 22:18 ` [PATCH v2] " Christoph Hellwig
2010-02-05 3:41 ` Eric Sandeen
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