From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Buesch Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 21:47:25 +0000 Subject: Re: Libvolume incorrectly detects FAT32 Message-Id: <200603072247.25615.mbuesch@freenet.de> MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="nextPart4743670.Wqc4kyYn6b" List-Id: References: <20060306215704.35f12840@silver> In-Reply-To: <20060306215704.35f12840@silver> To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org --nextPart4743670.Wqc4kyYn6b Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 07 March 2006 18:32, you wrote: > So the bottom line is, "no, this idea won't make it"? How about, then, le= t the > user of the lib (ie. the app using the lib) specify whether it wants a fu= ll > match or not? I think you misunderstand. The lib (app) is about properly _creating_ the partition with all magic. So basically every formating tool should zero out parts of the partition and _then_ write the new magic there. Obviously some tools fail to zero out the space. This is what needs fixing. Pushing the problem to kernel-space, by implementing a faulty-by-design scoring system is IMHO not the way to go. BTW: I often saw this problem in the past, especially with swap and fat related partitions. So I now always use dd to zero out the first part of a partition before I reformat it. That's a good workaround the broken format utilities. To summerize: I don't think there is something broken in the kernel, so I don't think we should go and fix nonbroken code. Fix the broken code in userspace instead. =2D-=20 Greetings Michael. --nextPart4743670.Wqc4kyYn6b Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBEDf9tlb09HEdWDKgRAnlDAKC9omlR7cMShe7ypZLyGVYmZfLMDACeMIPo vy0PwTTa/fGaRfN7oISj0wM= =bOuX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart4743670.Wqc4kyYn6b-- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel