Re: Possibly Broken GPT from Solaris

2012-01-22 Thread Jim Meyering
Jim Meyering wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: ... >> Thanks for the report. >> I fixed parted to handle precisely the case of zfs-related GPT tables. >> Here's the NEWS entry for that change: >> >> libparted can now read partition tables with a number of partition >> array entries that is diffe

Re: Possibly Broken GPT from Solaris

2012-01-21 Thread Jim Meyering
Jim Meyering wrote: > Richard Laager wrote: >> Do you have any thoughts on this? >> http://groups.google.com/a/zfsonlinux.org/group/zfs-devel/browse_thread/thread/04a5b2a71114f66e >> >> You can download a compressed sample disk image of a newly created >> whole-disk zpool from Solaris here: >> htt

Re: Possibly Broken GPT from Solaris

2012-01-21 Thread Richard Laager
On Sat, 2012-01-21 at 09:37 +0100, Jim Meyering wrote: > $ ./parted -s /t/solaris-data.img u s p > Error: The backup GPT table is not at the end of the disk, as it should be. Rod Smith of gdisk noted that as well. He's not sure if it's a real issue or just related to the way I created the virt

Re: Possibly Broken GPT from Solaris

2012-01-21 Thread Jim Meyering
Richard Laager wrote: > Do you have any thoughts on this? > http://groups.google.com/a/zfsonlinux.org/group/zfs-devel/browse_thread/thread/04a5b2a71114f66e > > You can download a compressed sample disk image of a newly created > whole-disk zpool from Solaris here: > http://coderich.net/solaris-data

Re: Possibly Broken GPT from Solaris

2012-01-21 Thread Seth Goldberg
On Jan 20, 2012, at 11:31 PM, Richard Laager wrote: > On Fri, 2012-01-20 at 19:57 -0800, Seth Goldberg wrote: >> We are in the process of fixing our GPT handling to be spec-compliant, >> so things should improve in the future. That said, parted does not >> honor the # of partition field, which i

Re: Possibly Broken GPT from Solaris

2012-01-20 Thread Richard Laager
On Fri, 2012-01-20 at 19:57 -0800, Seth Goldberg wrote: > We are in the process of fixing our GPT handling to be spec-compliant, > so things should improve in the future. That said, parted does not > honor the # of partition field, which is the source of the problem > (well, the source of the prob

Re: Possibly Broken GPT from Solaris

2012-01-20 Thread Seth Goldberg
Hi There, We are in the process of fixing our GPT handling to be spec-compliant, so things should improve in the future. That said, parted does not honor the # of partition field, which is the source of the problem (well, the source of the problem is that # of partition should be at least 12