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+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010, 2012, 2013 Free Software Foundation,
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@@ -28,6 +29,132 @@ A similar problem is described in
[[community/gsoc/project_ideas/unionfs_boot]], and needs to be implemented.
-# TODO
+# Open Issues
-How to use, etc.
+## Documentation
+
+[[!tag open_issue_documentation]]
+
+## [[open_issues/hurd_build_without_parted]]
+
+## IRC, freenode, #hurd. 2013-09-21
+
+ <phcoder> Hello, guys. Is there a way to know where partition starts on
+ hurd. E.g. given hd0s1 get "2048 sectors"
+ <youpi> yes, it's the storeinfo RPC
+ <youpi> let me find you a pointer
+ <phcoder> in GRUB 2 files for determining device relations are a mess of
+ #if's. I try to split it into logical files and make common logic
+ uniform. Current Hurd's logic is completely different and, actually,
+ wrong. Same logic is used by Mac OS X part ...
+ <youpi> phcoder: Mmm, I guess you never got the userland-part.patch
+ upstream
+ <youpi> ah, yes ,you did
+ <youpi> I mean the find_hurd_root_device function
+ <youpi> grub was previously using file_get_storage_info
+ <phcoder> youpi: find_hurd_root_Device/file_get_storage info is about
+ translating / -> /dev/hd0s1. Current problem is in step hd0s1 ->
+ hd0,msdos1
+ <youpi> yes, but iirc file_get_storage_info might work for hd0s1 itself
+ <phcoder> I see, let me try this
+ <phcoder> youpi: file_get_storage gives offset=0 size=partition size
+ <youpi> (file_get_storage) damn
+ <phcoder> and name=hd0s1
+ <youpi> ah, that might be because we're still using in-kernel partition
+ table, instead of the parted partition table
+ <phcoder> looks like file_get_storage would be useful to get block size
+ though
+ <phcoder> youpi: is parted already used in some cases? Any reliable way to
+ check for it? Any way to access kernel partition map? Ioctl? RPC to
+ kernel?
+ <youpi> the parted table is only enabled in the debian installer for
+ now. You can set up one for yourself by running e.g. settrans -c
+ /tmp/myhd0s1 /hurd/storeio -T typed part:1:device:hd0
+ <youpi> I don't think there is any ioctl/RPC to get the kernel partition
+ table
+ <phcoder> youpi: is it using Linux partition code with some glue?
+ <youpi> phcoder: the kernel partition table, yes
+ <phcoder> youpi: that's bad. it's probably one of the least consistent
+ numbering schemes. It would imply that it only worked because only
+ simplest cases were ever tested
+ <youpi> I know
+ <youpi> that's why we want to migrate to the parted-based partition table
+ support
+ <youpi> (which also brings us much better support than the old linux2.0
+ code :) )
+ <phcoder> youpi: I've looked into code and must say that I dislike what I
+ see: partitions handled in ide/ahci/sd/...
+ <youpi> phcoder: which code?
+ <phcoder> youpi: gnumach
+ <youpi> sure, that's not what we want in the end
+ <phcoder> grep -r start_sect
+ <youpi> it's just the legacy linux way of doing partition support
+ <phcoder> Well Linux at least gives a meaningful ioctl
+ <phcoder> couldn't find any hint of it in gnumach
+ <youpi> we didn't bother to add one since the parted way is supposed to be
+ what we have in the end
+ <phcoder> youpi: I can't make our code follow sth that might be the case in
+ the future
+ <youpi> why not?
+ <youpi> that's the way we will go
+ <youpi> it's not just hypothetic
+ <youpi> we just can't continue maintaining disk drivers in the kernel
+ <youpi> so it won't be in the kernel
+ <phcoder> youpi: if I do then GRUB won't work on current GNU/Hurd anymore
+ <youpi> can't you also keep the old code?
+ <youpi> as a fallback when the proper way does not work (yet)
+ <phcoder> More hairs... :(
+ <phcoder> How do I check for it? offset == 0 isn't proper as partitions may
+ start at 0
+ <phcoder> but checking than name still refers to partition is probably the
+ right way
+ <youpi> I don't see what you mean
+ <youpi> (about name)
+ <phcoder> youpi: I mean that we need a way to know that current code is
+ used and not future parted-based code
+ <youpi> phcoder: I understand that for the offset ==0 thing
+ <youpi> but I didn't understand the phrase you wrote just after that
+ <phcoder> youpi: file_get_storage gives back a name. If this name is the
+ same as the partition we requested in the first place then it's current
+ code
+ <youpi> ah, ok
+ <youpi> yes, if the name is the same, it means it's not actually a
+ partition
+ <phcoder> youpi: current gnumach code makes fake devices out of partitions
+ <youpi> yes
+ <phcoder> youpi: with settrans command you told, I get num_ints = 0
+ <youpi> phcoder: odd, I do get information, e.g.:
+ <youpi> hurd:/tmp# settrans -c /tmp/mysd0s1 /hurd/storeio -T typed
+ part:1:device:sd0
+ <youpi> hurd:/tmp# storeinfo mysd0s1
+ <youpi> device (0x200): sd0: 512: 83905: 42959360: 63+83905
+ <phcoder> storeinfo: myhd0s1: Operation not supported
+ <youpi> do you actually have an hd0 device?
+ <phcoder> yes
+ <phcoder> youpi: I typed parted instead of part
+ <phcoder> Now it works
+ <youpi> good :)
+ <phcoder> youpi: what is expected timeline on migration to part interface?
+ <youpi> there's no real timeline
+ <youpi> like everything, it'll happen when somebody actually looks at how
+ to achieve it
+ <youpi> perhaps it'll be easy, perhaps not. IIRC there is still an issue
+ with the swapper
+ <phcoder> youpi: sounds like we're stuck will fallback code for at least
+ couple of years
+ <youpi> possibly, entirely depends on people taking the task
+ <youpi> if that becomes really pressing at some point, I'll have to do it,
+ but of course, I can not magically do everything in a glimpse
+ <phcoder> youpi: it's not pressing but just be aware that unusual
+ partitioning is likely to fail. Probably not huge issue. As to its place
+ in our code it's not ideal but it's not the only case of suboptimal
+ construction for specific systems (what we had to do because of Linux
+ caching is terrifying). I'm not going to make hurd code a scapegot of
+ more generic problem
+ <phcoder> youpi: and since we very rarely drop support this code is
+ probably stuck for good
+ <youpi> as long as it's not used whenever we get to move to parted-based
+ partitioning, it's not too bad
+ <phcoder> youpi: and Mac OS X/Darwin case is even worse. Apparently they
+ deprecated their *BSD functions (which probably don't work since they
+ don't use BSD labels) without giving any replacement.