Re: [Libguestfs] sfdisk: No more Cylinder / Head / Sector support in util-linux 2.26 and later
On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 05:06:15PM +0200, Hilko Bengen wrote:
Hi,
it was brought to my attention that sfdisk has lost the ability to deal
with C/H/S addressing as of util-linux 2.26, so the -C ,-H, -S command
line parameters are no longer supported. Should there be a compile-time
check based on "sfdisk -h" output that would cause daemon/sfdisk.c to be
compiled only if something like the following is present?
,----
| Override the detected geometry using:
| -C, --cylinders <number> set the number of cylinders to use
| -H, --heads <number> set the number of heads to use
| -S, --sectors <number> set the number of sectors to use
`----
Yeah, unfortunately sfdisk was rewritten upstream, causing several
problems:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1183236
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1212507
Ideally I'd like to remove our dependency on sfdisk, but it's rather a
lot of work.
I think a compile-time check would just cause the API to fail in a
different way, so I don't think it would help users very much, unless
I'm misunderstanding what you mean.
Rich.
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