[linux-lvm] 2GB limit

[Larry Dickson]

On 1/20/09, Bryn M. Reeves <bmr at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Larry Dickson wrote:
>
>> We have considerable experience getting parted to work. Basically, the
>> distinction between primary and extended partitions is not needed, nor are
>> partition types. There are other subtle differences too. Very annoyingly,
>>
>
> Correct.
>
> SOME versions of parted interpret megabytes and even kilobytes (but not
>>
>
> Older versions, right?


1.6.19-1.EL had "standard" binary kB and mB.

1.8.1-17.el5 (CentOS 5.2), presumably a newer version, went to the
decimal-only kB and mB. There were a lot of other format changes in output,
too. We are on top of them, but decimal-only kB and mB is really a bad idea,
since it's inconsistent with all previous practice and also with sectors.

Larry Dickson

 sectors) as decimal only. For these you have to use unit B (bytes) to
>> regain
>> control. Experiment a little, to see what uses counting from 1 or counting
>> from 0, and what uses last-index or total-size, as these off-by-1 errors
>> can
>> be killer.
>>
>
> If you find problems like this with recent versions then please let us know
> via the parted mailing lists:
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/lists.shtml
>
> Ironing out the UI inconsistencies in parted is one of the areas that we
> are keen to improve at the moment so if you hit issues like this, we would
> very much like to hear about them.
>
> Regards,
> Bryn.
>
>
>
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