The attached patch has a basic entry for Oracle RAW disks. It would be good if someone who knows more about Oracle than I do could improve it and make it give more information. But basically identifying Oracle partitions is still a significant benefit and I believe that it's worth having in RHEL4U4.
Created attachment 131512 [details] patch to fix this bug
This bug occurs in version 4.10-2.EL4.3.
Created attachment 131516 [details] file-4.17-oracle.patch There's already different and more extended patch in file-4.17. Can you please check if it works for you? I don't have access to Oracle FS.
The rawhide magic code works well in terms of Oracle. If the Oracle entry in question is copied from rawhide to RHEL4 then it will work well.
Patch is ready, positively tested by reported.
Great! If you would like me to test the new package then I would be more than happy to do so.
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Please consider this for the update after that one, and the one after that. I expect that some of the RHEL4 servers I have recently installed will be in operation for another 4 years without upgrading to RHEL5. So an update at any time during that interval would be helpful.
Bugzilla won't let me re-open this.