Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-nbd: Deprecate qemu-nbd --partition

2019-01-23 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 04:18:16PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > On 1/23/19 3:55 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 03:19:53PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > >> The existing qemu-nbd --partition code claims to handle logical > >> partitions up to 8, since its introduction in 2008 (c

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-nbd: Deprecate qemu-nbd --partition

2019-01-23 Thread Eric Blake
On 1/23/19 3:55 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 03:19:53PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >> The existing qemu-nbd --partition code claims to handle logical >> partitions up to 8, since its introduction in 2008 (commit 7a5ca86). >> However, the implementation is bogus (actual MBR

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-nbd: Deprecate qemu-nbd --partition

2019-01-23 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 03:19:53PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > The existing qemu-nbd --partition code claims to handle logical > partitions up to 8, since its introduction in 2008 (commit 7a5ca86). > However, the implementation is bogus (actual MBR logical partitions > form a sort of linked list, wi

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-nbd: Deprecate qemu-nbd --partition

2019-01-23 Thread Eric Blake
The existing qemu-nbd --partition code claims to handle logical partitions up to 8, since its introduction in 2008 (commit 7a5ca86). However, the implementation is bogus (actual MBR logical partitions form a sort of linked list, with one partition per extended table entry, rather than four logical