[debbugs-tracker] bug#21954: closed (physical versus virtual disks)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: physical versus virtual disks Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 17:07:53 +0000

This is an ongoing chat between a systems administrator and a applications developer:

 

It is in regards to what is an Amazon S3 'bucket' and how looks like a hard drive in the cloud.

 

As the admin I think that it existence does not give a S3 bucket every attribute of a real physical hard drive.

 

So if I ran the parted command or any other GPT aware utility against the dev files the point to a connected S3 bucket and tried to create a GUID partition table (GPT) and tried to preserve that configuration across the restarting of virtual instances that there would be no guarantees of it persistence.

 

Thoughts?

 

Where in a virtual disk is the structures that store MBR, GPT, Inode structures and reserve areas for bad block data that is contained on a real physical hard drive?

 

regards,

 

David

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> On 11/18/2015 12:07 PM, David Billsbrough wrote:
> > Where in a virtual disk is the structures that store MBR, GPT,
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> Obviously the same place they are on a real disk, otherwise it
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