From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754989AbYIORB3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:01:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753327AbYIORBW (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:01:22 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:57575 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753075AbYIORBV (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:01:21 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Bill Davidsen Subject: Re: Partition check considered as error is breaking mounting in 2.6.27 Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:01:09 -0400 Message-ID: <48CE94D5.7080305@tmr.com> References: <200809132025.40300.herton@mandriva.com.br> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-71-245-142-197.albyny.east.verizon.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080716 Fedora/1.1.11-1.fc9 SeaMonkey/1.1.11 In-Reply-To: Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Bodo Eggert wrote: > Ordinary users need a correctly-working, non-logspewing ("Access beyond > end of disk") system, including the possibility to correctly create > filesystems or to use md on the disks. Having an IO-error-area at the end > of the partition won't exactly help, but maybe destroy the > HAL-automounted-using-the-wrong-options* filesystem. > It's not clear that "ordinary users" ever have this problem. It seems to happen *only* when using a drive which has something which looks like a partition table but isn't, or is a defective partition table, or will only work when diddling with HPA magic. And should some naive user be trying to use such a drive, it seems better to tell them, to beat them over the head with the problem, because if you hide the problem those users are least likely to be able to recover when problems arise. I'm not against some sensible recovery, I just don't agree that "pretend it isn't wrong" is a good default solution. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot