[v2,0/2] ndctl/namespace:Fix and improve write-infoblock

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Tarun Sahu April 25, 2022, 7:13 p.m. UTC

This series resolves some issues with write-infoblock command and provide support to write-infoblock for sector mode namespace

write-infoblock command has issues regarding updating the align, uuid, parent_uuid. In case of no parameter passed for it, this command used to overwrite the existing values with defaults.

In PATCH 1/2 these parameters will be set to their original values, incase, values hasn't been passed in command arguments

write-infoblock command doesn't have support for sector/BTT mode namespaces. They can be converted to fsdax, but can not be written being in sector mode.

In PATCH 2/2, It creates a functionality which write infoblock of Sector/BTT namespace. Currently only uuid, parent_uuid can be updated. In future, Support for other parameters can easily be integrated in the
functionality.

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v2:
  Updated the commit message (rephrasing) in patch 1/2
  Moved the ns_info struct to namespace.c from namespace.h
  put the results after --- to avoid long commit message
  
Tarun-Sahu (2):
  ndctl/namespace:Fix multiple issues with write-infoblock
  ndctl/namespace:Implement write-infoblock for sector mode namespaces

 ndctl/namespace.c | 307 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
 1 file changed, 224 insertions(+), 83 deletions(-)