[libvirt] [PATCH]: Export the 'label' on block devices

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Thu Oct 16 10:20:11 UTC 2008


On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 09:43:58AM +0200, Chris Lalancette wrote:
> To keep code duplication down, I moved some of the enum's from
> storage_backend_disk.c into a common place.  Note, however, that there is a
> slight semantic change because of this.  Previously, if no label was found on a
> disk in storage_backend_disk.c, it would always return "dos" as the label type.
>  That's not actually true, though; if it's a completely zeroed disk, for
> instance, it really just has label type of 'unknown'.  This patch changes to the
> new semantic of 'unknown' for label types we don't understand.  I don't think
> this will be a huge issue for compatibility, but there could be something I'm
> missing.

I don't see a compatability problem - existing behaviour is a clear bug.

Daniel
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