Hi Aaron, On Jun 10 21:45, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jun 10 20:51, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Jun 10 16:59, Aaron Schneider wrote: > > > > Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 12:00:27 +0200 > > > > From: corinna-cyg...@cygwin.com > > > > > > > > Cygwin's /dev/sd* emulation doesn't support more than 15 partitions yet. > > > > This would need some rework of the device naming code. > > > > > > > > > > > > Corinna > > > > > > I see. I though that it was a Windows problem that didn't provide > > > the partitions properly to cygwin if they weren't formatted with a > > > known filesystem or something related. > > > > > > Isn't any other way to access those partitions even from Windows > > > Powershell? > > > > There may be a way even using Cygwin. If you know which disk X it is, > > you could try accessing it via /proc/sys/Device/HarddiskX/PartitionY. > > No guarantee but for raw access this might be sufficient. > > > > > Is the feature to support more than 15 partition planned > > > to be implemented? > > > > I looked into that and theoretically the changes are small. > > > > However, there's an undesired side-effect. The device parser code uses > > an auto-generated minimally pruned 0-trie, created by a tool called > > shilka. The problem is that the resulting object file is already very > > big, compared to the rest of the DLL. > > > Amazing but true, about 20% of > > the object file is just this trie code and its data, whihc, > > Uh, this sentence makes no sense. Let's try again: > > Amazing but true, about 20% of the Cygwin DLL size is just this device > parser code and its data, which... > > > IMHO, is > > already quite bad. By adding support for partitions 16-63, this object > > code gets 2.5 times bigger! > > > > This is way too much, and I think what we have to do first is to > > replace this autogenerated 0-trie code by some simpler, hand-written > > parser before we can consider adding support for more partitions.
I uploaded a new snapshot to https://cygwin.com/snapshots/ which reduces the parser size and adds support for partitions 16 to 63. Please give it a try. Also, please note that this snapshot won't work on XP or Server 2003 anymore. Thanks, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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