On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 09:39:33PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > An unpartitioned but xfs formatted LUN is recognized as xfs. But a LUN > formatted as btrfs isn't recognized. It does mount correctly as btrfs, but > parted says it's unrecognized. Is this expected? >
Yes. I haven't gotten around to adding btrfs 'support' yes. The field is only informational and, AFAIK, serves no real purpose now that we have dropped filesystem resize support. > parted-3.1-12.fc19.x86_64 > > > # parted -l > > Model: Virtio Block Device (virtblk) > Disk /dev/vdb: 17.6TB > Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B > Partition Table: loop > Disk Flags: > > Number Start End Size File system Flags > 1 0.00B 17.6TB 17.6TB xfs > In the short term I guess recognizing btrfs will break less things that parse the output, but maybe in the next major release we should just drop it. I have a bug tracking this in Fedora - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=767830 -- Brian C. Lane | Anaconda Team | IRC: bcl #anaconda | Port Orchard, WA (PST8PDT)
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