From: iSteve <isteve@oneofthe.peoplewithissues.net>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Libvolume incorrectly detects FAT32
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 05:57:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060308065757.7c76ae66@silver> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060306215704.35f12840@silver>
On Tue, 7 Mar 2006 22:47:25 +0100
Michael Buesch <mbuesch@freenet.de> wrote:
> 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.
I've never suggested to hack the kernel code; I suggested to hack the
pseudoscoring system (or the strict / lax approach) into the libvolume_id
included in udev, which is userspace.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-08 5:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-06 20:57 Libvolume incorrectly detects FAT32 iSteve
2006-03-06 21:59 ` Michael Buesch
2006-03-06 22:37 ` Kay Sievers
2006-03-07 17:01 ` iSteve
2006-03-07 17:15 ` Kay Sievers
2006-03-07 17:32 ` iSteve
2006-03-07 21:47 ` Michael Buesch
2006-03-08 5:57 ` iSteve [this message]
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