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    disk wiping: fix bug in chunk size computation · 6e7f0cd9
    Iustin Pop authored
    
    
    The current wipe_chunk_size computation is doing min(int_value,
    float_value). For small disks (below 10GiB), the actual formula will
    result into the float value being chosen. This results into very
    interesting behaviour:
    
    Wiping disk 0, offset 102.4, chunk 102.4
    Wiping disk 0, offset 204.8, chunk 102.4
    …
    Wiping disk 0, offset 921.6, chunk 102.4
    Wiping disk 0, offset 1024.0, chunk 1.13686837722e-13
    
    Since these are passed to dd via %d, this will result into the call to
    dd specifying offset 1024 and count 0, which will fail.
    
    We just need to enforce conversion to int, in order to not get bitten
    by floating point rounding errors.
    
    The patch also reorders some logging messages in order to log the
    chunk size.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIustin Pop <iustin@google.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarMichael Hanselmann <hansmi@google.com>
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