From: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: 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 11:10:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060517091056.GA21219@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200605170853.k4H8rn8K009466@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
On Wed, May 17, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> One has to wonder if it might not be better to treat this case as
> "one partition covering the entire disk", or even better, decode the AIX LVM
> info and see if there's any LVM segments present on the disk, so as to limit
> the chances of accidentally splatting live data.
The check can go once someone has implemented proper support to read the
drives. Up to now the bogus partitions cause only confusion and practical
doesnt help anyone. So let it go.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-17 9:10 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 [this message]
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
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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