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From: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
To: "Austin S. Hemmelgarn" <ahferroin7@gmail.com>
Cc: Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>,
	linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
	Gwendal Grignou <gwendal@chromium.org>,
	Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>,
	Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: partitions: efi: Always check for alternative GPT at end of drive
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2016 11:10:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160426181018.GA16601@linux-uzut.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <571F7D6D.8020209@gmail.com>

On Tue, 26 Apr 2016, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote:

>At the absolute minimum, we should be logging (at least at a warning 
>level) that we had to fall back the the backup GPT.  If somebody is 
>dealing with a disk that had a torn write to the primary GPT, that's 
>one thing, but this could also be caused by any number of other 
>problems (hardware issues, malicious intent, etc), and we need to log 
>that we detected corrupted data.

We already complain about corrupted primary gpt (at a warn level), and
there's also plenty of verbosity about differences between primary and
backup (see compare_gpts()), or are you referring to something else?

Thanks,
Davidlohr

  reply	other threads:[~2016-04-26 18:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-26  1:06 [PATCH] block: partitions: efi: Always check for alternative GPT at end of drive Julius Werner
2016-04-26 10:20 ` Karel Zak
2016-04-26 18:33   ` Davidlohr Bueso
2016-04-26 20:13     ` Julius Werner
2016-04-26 20:34     ` Elliott, Robert (Persistent Memory)
2016-04-26 21:15       ` Davidlohr Bueso
2016-04-26 21:51         ` Gwendal Grignou
2016-04-27 15:09           ` Karel Zak
2016-04-27 15:45             ` Doug Anderson
2016-04-27 21:44             ` Julius Werner
2016-04-27  6:00       ` Ard Biesheuvel
2016-04-27 12:59         ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-04-26 14:38 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-04-26 18:10   ` Davidlohr Bueso [this message]
2016-04-26 19:27     ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn

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