Phillip Susi wrote: > On 6/1/2010 11:52 AM, Curtis Gedak wrote: >> My testing showed that libparted spent 33 seconds in libparted's >> ped_device_probe_all() when the BIOS was misconfigured. See >> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=351753#c20 > > That sounds like a bug somewhere... it should only take about 1 or 2 > seconds for the kernel to fail any given read. Perhaps > ped_device_probe_all() continues retrying a dozen times rather than > giving up. That should probably be fixed. > > For that matter, why does it even consider floppies? They can't be > partitioned so it should pay no attention to them.
I whole heartedly agree. Parted and libparted should not even consider floppy drives. -- Gparted does not list dmraid devices https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/554582 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
