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Re: amiga partitioning support for parted
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Andrew Clausen |
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Re: amiga partitioning support for parted |
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Tue, 22 Jul 2003 08:26:32 +1000 |
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On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 09:04:23PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> BTW, as i understand it, parted is mostly 512 bytes only, while it is
> possible to use blocks of any size on amiga partitions. Possibly there
> are some people around using 1024 sized blocks.
In this case, you'll have to do some maths to support them.
(i.e. use appropriate PedConstraint's, and multiply/divide everything
by 2)
> > > Also, is there a way to telling the higher levels
> > > that we are looking at a partition on block n, and not have to search
> > > for it each time ?
> >
> > Do you mean ped_disk_get_partition_by_sector() ?
> > I don't really understand your question.
>
> The amiga partition table can be found on any of the 16 first sectors of
> the disk. So, when doing a probe, i have to look at all the 16 first
> blocks, and search for an amiga partition table. The ped_probe function
> returns the partition type, but could also return the blcok number where
> the partition was found, so i have not to search it again when doing a
> read. But then, maybe it is cheap partition access, and not really all
> that important to worry about.
It's *really* cheap. If I were you, I'd allocate a 16 sector buffer,
and slurp it all up. Besides, it'll all be cached.
> Maybe if i will have time i will try to write all such stuff i
> discovered in a nice howto or something.
That would be nice :)
> BTW, parted is a GNU project, right, so i do have to assign the
> copyright of my fixes to the FSF or something such ? And also do some
> paper work with my employer (on whose time i write the stuff) ?
That is desirable, yes :) I attached the form that starts the process.
(There are other options... ask me if you're interested)
Cheers,
Andrew
assign.future
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- amiga partitioning support for parted, Sven Luther, 2003/07/16
- Re: amiga partitioning support for parted, Andrew Clausen, 2003/07/20
- Re: amiga partitioning support for parted, Sven Luther, 2003/07/21
- Re: amiga partitioning support for parted,
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- Re: amiga partitioning support for parted, Sven Luther, 2003/07/22
- Re: amiga partitioning support for parted, Andrew Clausen, 2003/07/23
- Re: amiga partitioning support for parted, Sven Luther, 2003/07/23
- Re: amiga partitioning support for parted, Andrew Clausen, 2003/07/30
- Re: amiga partitioning support for parted, Sven Luther, 2003/07/30
- Re: amiga partitioning support for parted, Sven Luther, 2003/07/24
- Re: amiga partitioning support for parted, Andrew Clausen, 2003/07/30
- Re: amiga partitioning support for parted, Sven Luther, 2003/07/30