From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761891AbdEZNXm (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 May 2017 09:23:42 -0400 Received: from mail-pf0-f177.google.com ([209.85.192.177]:33507 "EHLO mail-pf0-f177.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751088AbdEZNXj (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 May 2017 09:23:39 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] partitions/msdos: FreeBSD UFS2 file systems are not recognized To: Richard Narron , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Andries Brouwer References: From: Jens Axboe Message-ID: Date: Fri, 26 May 2017 07:23:35 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 05/26/2017 04:48 AM, Richard Narron wrote: > The code in block/partitions/msdos.c recognizes FreeBSD, OpenBSD > and NetBSD partitions and does a reasonable job picking out OpenBSD > and NetBSD UFS subpartitions. > > But for FreeBSD the subpartitions are always "bad". > > Kernel: > Though all 3 of these BSD systems use UFS as a file system, only > FreeBSD uses relative start addresses in the subpartition > declarations. > > The following patch fixes this for FreeBSD partitions and leaves > the code for OpenBSD and NetBSD intact: I queued this up 3 days ago, and replied as such. There's no need to keep sending it. -- Jens Axboe