Hi,
Unless there is something critical that most people use, we usually let RedHat 
deal with it and push out the fix.  Since they say they have already fixed it, 
and it will come out in the next release, expect the fix in SL 5.3.

Just out of curiosity, what are you really doing with this?  When you say you 
are "extrating partitions", that doesn't mean anything to me.
I can mount my virtual partitions using lomount, and get files off them.  Or I 
can repartition the disk in my virtual machine.
I've read the man page and the information about kpartx, but I guess I just 
don't know when I would use this.  What specific thing do you use this for?

Troy

Jan Kundrát wrote:
> Hi folks,
> kpartx, a tool for extracting partitions from whole-disk images, doesn't 
> currently work on large files. That makes it kind of useless for working 
> with common Xen images, for example those created by virt-install.
> 
> There's a bugreport in RedHat's Bugzilla [1], and I'm not sure what 
> exactly its resolution status means.
> 
> There's also a report in CentOS' Mantis [2], to which I just attached a 
> simple patch that fixes the problem for me.
> 
> I'm not familiar with release procedures of SL, but given that 
> virt-install & kickstart partition the disk image files by default, I 
> think that resolving this issue might be extremely handy.
> 
> Please note that there's also a patch in Gentoo bugzilla [3] which uses 
> significantly different approach. I haven't bothered with checking its 
> correctness, as the issue is fixed in upstream's 0.4.8 as well and my 
> fix seems to work well, at least for my purposes.
> 
> Cheers,
> -jkt
> 
> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454928
> [2] http://bugs.centos.org/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=2882
> [3] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196083


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