On 03/05/2010 10:22 AM, Fabio M. Di Nitto wrote:
On 3/5/2010 3:16 PM, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> On 03/05/2010 03:08 AM, Fabio M. Di Nitto wrote:
>> On 3/4/2010 2:56 PM, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
>>> On 03/04/2010 04:34 AM, Patrick Ale wrote:
>>>
>>>> Any ideas what is going on?
>>>
>>> Pretty much exactly what you describe is going on. Something in blkid's
>>> handling doesn't deal properly with Sun Whole Disk types.
>>>
>>> It is a known bug, haven't had time lately to put a lot of time into it.
>>
>> This is an easy fix.
>>
>> David M. and I worked together to make sure that /sysfs did export a
>> whole_disk attribute for a full disk slices.
>>
>> An ad-hoc udev rule change to skip creation/handling of those devices
>> will work just fine and it´s useful on all architecture (also for BSD
>> formatted block devices).
>
> Could you write a patch against udev for this? Udev is kindof a black
> magic thing for me. :)
I am PTO as of 2 hours ago :) but I´ll see you Tue and/or Wed in
Westford. I am fairly sure the udev rule is still shipped in Ubuntu, we
just need to find it and copy it.
Hmm, assuming it is this line in 60-persistent-storage.rules:
# ignore partitions that span the entire disk
TEST=="whole_disk", GOTO="persistent_storage_end"
... we already have that.
~spot