Re: I think I've found why Xen domUs can't mount some file-backed disk images! (vnd(4) hides labels!)

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 01:28:46PM -0000, Michael van Elst wrote:
> bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost (Manuel Bouyer) writes:
> 
> >The size of the disk is indeed 790528 in the xenstore (and the dom0's
> >kernel message) but I don't know where this comes from.
> 
> >The file is definitively 791121 sectors long:
> 
> vnd computes a fake geometry based on 1MB cylinders.

Why does this trucates the total number of sectors of the vnd ?
there's no reason to do so.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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