[dm-devel] [PATCH 3/4] kpartx: handle alternate bsd disklabel location

[Benjamin Marzinski]

On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 03:12:58PM +0000, Martin Wilck wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-07-01 at 17:39 -0500, Benjamin Marzinski wrote:
> > bsd disk labels can either be at the start of the second sector, or
> > 64
> > bytes into the first sector, but kpartx only handled the first case.
> > However the second case is what parted creates, and what the linux
> > kernel partition code expects.  kpartx should handle both cases.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Marzinski <bmarzins at redhat.com>
> 
> I can see that for parted, but not for the kernel
> (https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/block/partitions/msdos.c#L368)

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/block/partitions/osf.c

-Ben

> Anyway:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Martin Wilck <mwilck at suse.com>
> 
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