> As this is really just for testing, I would add a :offset suffix to the
> device names where the offset is in sectors.
> So:
> /dev/sda
> means read from the start of /dev/sda
>
> /dev/sda:2048
>
> means start 1Meg into /dev/sda.
>
> That should be easy to parse and is quite general.
Hi again,
please find attached below another mini-patch
which should add the offset option, as discussed.
That is, "/dev/sdX:offset".
It should work with or without the ":offset" tail,
and possibly also with "/dev/sdX:", depending on
"atoll()".
Please consider for inclusion.
Thanks,
bye,
diff -uN a/restripe.c b/restripe.c
--- a/restripe.c 2011-02-18 23:18:20.377740868 +0100
+++ b/restripe.c 2011-02-18 23:30:07.589841525 +0100
@@ -875,6 +875,14 @@
exit(3);
}
for (i=0; i<raid_disks; i++) {
+ char *p;
+ p = strchr(argv[9+i], ':');
+
+ if(p != NULL) {
+ *p++ = '\0';
+ offsets[i] = atoll(p) * 512;
+ }
+
fds[i] = open(argv[9+i], O_RDWR);
if (fds[i] < 0) {
perror(argv[9+i]);
--
piergiorgio
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