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SubjectRe: tools support for non-512 byte sector sizes
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 01:37:25PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> scsi_debug does exactly the same thing, so it reports anything you tell
> it (Martin Petersen actually added this so he could test with 4k
> sectors).
>
> The problem, which ata_ram also suffers, is that the tools we most need
> to test are the ones for manipulating non volatile characteristics (like
> partition tables). We'd really like the disk contents to survive reboot
> for this ...

Ummm... _reboot_, or _module unload/reload_? I could certainly include
an option to populate the ramdisc from a file. Is the ioctl to re-read
the partition table not enough?

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