Re: [PATCH] fs: Allow number of blocks in block list to be optional, defaulting length to device length

[Daniel Kiper]

On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 01:09:10PM -0500, Glenn Washburn wrote:
> This is primarily useful to do something like "loopback newdev (dev)8+" to
> create a device that skips the first 4K, which may contain a container
> header, eg. a non-standard RAID1 header, that grub does not recognize. This
> would allow that container data to be potentially accessed up to the end of
> container, which may be necessary for some layouts that store data at the
> end. There is currently not a good way to programmatically get the number
> of sectors on a disk to set the appropriate length of the blocklist.
>
> Signed-off-by: Glenn Washburn <development@efficientek.com>

Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>

Daniel