From: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
To: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, martin@dalecki.de
Cc: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, adam@yggdrasil.com, johninsd@san.rr.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu
Subject: Re: [bug, 2.5.29, IDE] partition table corruption?
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 14:29:44 +0200 (MEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <UTC200208081229.g78CTiY21579.aeb@smtp.cwi.nl> (raw)
> Its not a bug in lilo.
We disagree here.
> Its a bug in the new kernel.
We disagree again.
> Breaking backward compatibility arbitrarily is bad.
Of course.
> The kernel needs to know geometry anyway
Let me repeat: Geometry does not exist.
It is impossible to know something that does not exist.
I can boot seven different kernels on my present machine
and get seven different geometries for /dev/hda.
You see that even "backward compatibility" is a
dubious concept here. Compatibility with what?
Even the BIOS is not consistent, and different BIOS functions
report different geometries.
We have had layer upon layer of bandaids.
I think the time is long overdue to get rid of it all.
> for the folks who have force ide translation
Can you elaborate on what you mean by "force ide translation" ?
Andries
next reply other threads:[~2002-08-08 12:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-08 12:29 Andries.Brouwer [this message]
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2002-08-08 18:22 Andries.Brouwer
2002-08-08 22:36 ` John Coffman
2002-08-09 6:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-08 9:08 Adam J. Richter
2002-08-08 9:24 ` Marcin Dalecki
2002-08-08 9:31 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-08 9:34 ` Marcin Dalecki
2002-08-08 10:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-08 11:45 ` Andries Brouwer
2002-08-08 12:30 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-08 11:22 ` Marcin Dalecki
2002-08-08 13:23 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-08 12:18 ` Marcin Dalecki
2002-08-08 18:11 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-09 0:11 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-08-09 6:27 ` Marcin Dalecki
[not found] ` <3D523B25.5 <20020808181100Z315277-685+26763@vger.kernel.org>
2002-08-09 6:25 ` Marcin Dalecki
2002-08-07 18:43 Andries.Brouwer
2002-08-08 7:46 ` Marcin Dalecki
2002-08-06 22:27 Andries.Brouwer
2002-08-07 17:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-07 17:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-01 13:45 Ingo Molnar
2002-08-01 13:48 ` Marcin Dalecki
2002-08-01 16:16 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-01 15:02 ` Marcin Dalecki
2002-08-01 15:12 ` Alan Cox
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