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Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 16:00:09 +0200 From: Boaz Harrosh <boaz@...xistor.com> To: Jens Axboe <axboe@...com>, Matthew Wilcox <willy@...ux.intel.com>, Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@...nvz.org> CC: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: [PATCHSET 0/5 v3] brd: partition fixes Jens Hi Currently brd has multiple bugs when trying to use partitions. After this set all known problems are solved. Please see individual patch for description of the problem. [v3] Same exact code but some commit messages changed to try and explain better what was fixed and why. (Rebased on 3.18-rc3 but nothing changed in brd.c since then) [v2] Based on Jens's linux-next [30e996a] incorporating the brd patch by Dmitry Monakhov. Dmitry has introduced a new part_show parameter, this parameter is now removed and we always "part_show=1". Scripts that did part_show=1 will work just the same but will display a message in logs. This is harmless. (And scripts can be modified to remove this parameter) [v1] Current situation is that any attempt to use partitions with brd device would create the partition but then any use will trash the data. See: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-scsi/msg76737.html So these patches fixes up all the problems we saw with the code, but not sacrificing any of the old fixtures. See [patch 4/5] for more explanations. list of patches: [PATCH 1/5] axonram: Fix bug in direct_access [PATCH 2/5] block: Change direct_access calling convention These 2 above are from Matthew's DAX series latest version. Exactly as is, taken from the 01org/prd.git tree They are needed so to support direct_access with partitions. [PATCH 3/5] brd: Fix all partitions BUGs This one fixes all the very HARD bugs, which today cause data corruption. [PATCH 4/5] brd: Request from fdisk 4k alignment [PATCH 5/5] brd: Add getgeo to block ops for fdisk And the last two are to try and make fdisk work properly with a direct_access() device. One can fetch/view these patches from a public tree here: git: git://git.open-osd.org/pmem.git brd-partitions branch web: http://git.open-osd.org/gitweb.cgi?p=pmem.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/brd-partitions Thanks Boaz -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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