From: David Greaves <david@dgreaves.com>
To: Andries Brouwer <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
Cc: "Mike Miller (OS Dev)" <mikem@beardog.cca.cpqcorp.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] make kernel ignore bogus partitions
Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 16:33:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <445F64E2.3000902@dgreaves.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060508072701.GB15941@apps.cwi.nl>
Andries Brouwer wrote:
> On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 04:00:55PM -0500, Mike Miller (OS Dev) wrote:
>
>> Patch 1/1
>> Sometimes partitions claim to be larger than the reported capacity of a
>> disk device. This patch makes the kernel ignore those partitions.
>>
> Or, while doing forensics on a disk one copies the start to some
> other disk, and that other disk may be smaller.
> Etc.
>
> So, it seems that Linux loses a little bit of its power when such things
> are made impossible.
>
I've had similar situations when trying to recover data from failed devices.
Equally - if you don't know what's going on then partition/disk size
mismatch is a bad thing.
A loud warning may be more appropriate (and useful) than an ignore.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-08 15:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-03 21:00 [PATCH] make kernel ignore bogus partitions Mike Miller (OS Dev)
2006-05-08 7:27 ` Andries Brouwer
2006-05-08 15:00 ` Douglas Gilbert
2006-05-08 15:33 ` David Greaves [this message]
2006-05-08 20:20 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-05-08 20:46 ` reiser4 bug [was Re: 2.6.17-rc3-mm1] Alexander Gran
2006-05-08 23:21 ` Joe Feise
2006-05-09 0:13 ` Alexander Gran
2006-05-09 19:41 ` [PATCH] make kernel ignore bogus partitions Andrew Morton
2006-05-09 22:48 ` Andries Brouwer
2006-05-11 11:00 ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-11 11:00 ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-11 11:51 ` Andries Brouwer
2006-05-11 16:04 ` Mike Miller (OS Dev)
2006-05-11 23:08 ` Daniel Barkalow
2006-05-12 10:32 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-10-30 19:45 ` Phillip Susi
2006-10-30 21:48 ` Christian Schmidt
2006-05-11 21:47 ` Mike Miller (OS Dev)
2006-05-11 16:17 ` Mike Miller (OS Dev)
2006-05-11 16:27 ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-11 17:09 ` Alan Cox
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