Stephen Powell wrote: ... > Now, for the specific "bullet points" for NEWS: > > o Fixed a bug in which the starting block for the implicit partition > of LDL disks was miscalculated if the disk was formatted at a block > size other than 4096. The program now calculates the starting block > of the partition correctly, regardless of whether the disk has a > block size of 512, 1024, 2048, or 4096. (These are all the valid > block sizes.) > > o Enhanced LDL support to use the "formatted blocks" field of an LDL- > format disk label (for version 2 and above LDL formats) to determine > the size of the partition, rather than relying on disk geometry. > This will allow parted to determine the correct partition size if, > for example, an image copy backup of a 3390-3 volume is taken at > the home site and restored to a 3390-9 volume at a disaster recovery > hot site. The extra space at the end of the 3390-9 volume is not > part of the partition, and parted now knows that. > > o Added support for CMS-formatted minidisks, both non-reserved and > reserved, provided that they are on CKD DASD. CMS minidisks on > FBA DASD are not supported at this time. Also, CMS minidisks on > CKD DASD which use the DIAG driver are not supported either. The > ECKD driver must be used. > > The changes to function dasd_alloc_metadata in dasd.c are necessary to > support both the bug fix and the enhancements. It is important that > no metadata/partition overlap occurs, and it is important that all > sectors on an LDL or CMS disk be covered either by the partition or by > metadata.
Thanks for the detailed explanation. I'll add it to NEWS once the paperwork has gone through. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
