Re: [PATCH 2/5] Add aix lvm partitions support files

[Philippe De Muyter]

Hi Karel

On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 02:36:51PM +0200, Karel Zak wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 01:40:41PM +0200, Philippe De Muyter wrote:
> > > why not memset(pps_found, ....)? I also see magical constant 16
> > 
> > Actually 16 is the maximum partition count allowed in a disk by linux,
> > or should it be 15 ?  Is there already a constant for that ?
> > The AIX disk I tested with had only :) 11 partitions.
> 
> I don't think it's correct to expect any hardcoded limit. 
>  
> The struct parsed_partitions->parts is allocated according to
> disk_max_parts() where the limit depends on number of minor numbers or
> it's DISK_MAX_PARTS (=256).
> 
> There is no problem to create disk with many partitions:
> 
>  # modprobe scsi_debug dev_size_mb=300
>  # (echo -e 'g\n'; for i in {1..100}; do echo -e "n\n\n\n+1M"; done; \
>     echo -e 'w\nq\n') | fdisk /dev/sdb
> 
>  # lsblk -n /dev/sdb | wc -l
>  101

how are they named then ?

on my system (a 2.6.24 kernel which is the last one that support my
powerpc PReP machine because PReP support got removed with the merge
of /arch/ppc and /arch/powerpc :( ), I get :

root:~# ls -l /dev/sd[ab]*
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8,  0 Apr 25 22:22 /dev/sda
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 10 Apr 25 22:22 /dev/sda10
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 11 Apr 25 22:22 /dev/sda11
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8,  3 Apr 25 22:22 /dev/sda3
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8,  4 Apr 25 22:22 /dev/sda4
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8,  5 Apr 25 22:22 /dev/sda5
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8,  6 Apr 25 22:22 /dev/sda6
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8,  7 Apr 25 22:22 /dev/sda7
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8,  8 Apr 25 22:22 /dev/sda8
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8,  9 Apr 25 22:22 /dev/sda9
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 16 Apr 25 22:22 /dev/sdb
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 26 Apr 25 22:22 /dev/sdb10
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 27 Apr 25 22:22 /dev/sdb11
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 19 Apr 25 22:22 /dev/sdb3
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 20 Apr 25 22:22 /dev/sdb4
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 21 Apr 25 22:22 /dev/sdb5
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 22 Apr 25 22:22 /dev/sdb6
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 23 Apr 25 22:22 /dev/sdb7
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 24 Apr 25 22:22 /dev/sdb8
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 25 Apr 25 22:22 /dev/sdb9
root:~#

so sda is 8,0 and sdb is 8,16

and if, while discovering partitions of /dev/sda, I try to make a
partition 16 or higher, it is silently discarded by 'put_partition'.

Is that changed ?

Philippe

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