From: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ignore partition table on disks with AIX label
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 21:03:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060517190326.GA29017@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1147892187.10470.70.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Wed, May 17, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Mer, 2006-05-17 at 20:37 +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> > A big company who is all hot about Linux expressed no interrest so far
> > to make AIX volumes readable in Linux.
>
> All we want to know initially is how to correctly spot AIX volumes. As I
I dont have any more info about the layout.
The code for AIX in fdisk was added around 1999-03-20. So if anyone had
any trouble with matching the 4 byte at the beginning of the disks,
fdisk would do more or different checks before rejecting such a disk.
I'm not sure if fdisk was always the tool of choice, but its a good
measure.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-17 19:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-17 8:13 [PATCH] ignore partition table on disks with AIX label Olaf Hering
2006-05-17 8:36 ` Andreas Mohr
2006-05-17 8:53 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-05-17 9:10 ` Olaf Hering
2006-05-17 10:14 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-05-17 18:37 ` Olaf Hering
2006-05-17 18:56 ` Alan Cox
2006-05-17 19:03 ` Olaf Hering [this message]
2006-05-17 19:44 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-05-17 20:03 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-05-17 13:04 ` Alan Cox
2006-05-17 12:57 ` Olaf Hering
2006-07-31 12:35 ` Olaf Hering
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