Bug 918217
| Summary: | [PATCH] Parted incorrectly fails when writing a label to a loop device | ||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Torrie Fischer <tdfischer> | ||||
| Component: | parted | Assignee: | Brian Lane <bcl> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED WORKSFORME | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | unspecified | ||||||
| Version: | 19 | CC: | bcl | ||||
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| Last Closed: | 2014-02-01 00:44:23 UTC | Type: | Bug | ||||
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I'm not sure what's going on, but parted works fine with loop devices. This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 19 development cycle. Changing version to '19'. (As we did not run this process for some time, it could affect also pre-Fedora 19 development cycle bugs. We are very sorry. It will help us with cleanup during Fedora 19 End Of Life. Thank you.) More information and reason for this action is here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Fedora19 |
Created attachment 705564 [details] Patch to ignore partition limits on loop devices Description of problem: Parted incorrectly fails when writing a label to a loop device Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 3.1-9.fc18.i686 How reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. Setup a koji builder running kernel 2.6.32-276.el6.x86_64 2. Submit a mostly empty kickstart file to spin an appliance Actual results: appliance.log contains: Adding disk sda as /var/tmp/imgcreate-8WhAhT/tmp-vFtiAE/koji-image-dist-aether-1-build-395-201303051105-sda.raw Extending sparse file /var/tmp/imgcreate-8WhAhT/tmp-vFtiAE/koji-image-dist-aether-1-build-395-201303051105-sda.raw to 10737418240 Losetup add /dev/loop0 mapping to /var/tmp/imgcreate-8WhAhT/tmp-vFtiAE/koji-image-dist-aether-1-build-395-201303051105-sda.raw Formatting disks Initializing partition table for /dev/loop0 with msdos layout Unable to create appliance : Failed mount disks : Error writing partition table on /dev/loop0 Losetup remove /dev/loop0 Expected results: A successful build Additional info: Upstream parted bug tracker seems to be down, so I can't send this upstream for any kind of review. However, this is a small patch that would be really super nice to have in the next F18 update. The patch lets parted assume that the underlying device has no limit on partitions if it is a loop device. It also skips telling the OS that it should reload the partition table, which isn't supported for loop devices on Linux anyways afaik.