From: "Bob Copeland" <me@bobcopeland.com>
To: "Alan Stern" <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: "Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski" <herton@mandriva.com.br>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org,
bogdano@mandriva.com.br,
"Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino" <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>
Subject: Re: Partition check considered as error is breaking mounting in 2.6.27
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:59:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b6c5339f0809121059s2949a887q81de84ac6ca3a2d7@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0809121316460.13261-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> wrote:
>> I don't know if this change of behaviour in 2.6.27 is desired (not creating
>> partition nodes if its size exceeds media size).
>
> I have to believe that it _is_ desired. Why else would that commit
> have been merged?
Several people objected to similar patches when they were posted on
LKML in the past, usually for the reason "this breaks my forensics use
case." I guess no one objected this time around.
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=116069718613683&w=2
(I don't have an opinion, I'm just providing collective memory.)
--
Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-12 18:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-12 17:01 Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2008-09-12 17:36 ` Alan Stern
2008-09-12 17:59 ` Bob Copeland [this message]
2008-09-12 18:21 ` Alan Stern
2008-09-12 18:02 ` Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2008-09-12 18:40 ` Alan Stern
2008-09-12 20:14 ` Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2008-09-12 20:17 ` Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2008-09-12 20:27 ` Bob Copeland
2008-09-12 21:07 ` Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2008-09-12 23:36 ` Andrew Morton
2008-09-12 23:46 ` David Brownell
2008-09-12 23:52 ` Andrew Morton
2008-09-12 23:59 ` David Brownell
2008-09-13 0:13 ` Andrew Morton
2008-09-13 2:22 ` Alan Stern
2008-10-08 16:01 ` Kay Sievers
2008-10-09 14:04 ` Kay Sievers
2008-10-13 9:01 ` Jens Axboe
[not found] <bblSy-60j-19@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <bbnhC-7Vd-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
2008-09-13 9:24 ` Bodo Eggert
2008-09-13 23:25 ` Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2008-09-14 12:36 ` Bodo Eggert
2008-09-15 17:01 ` Bill Davidsen
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-09-12 17:32 Toralf Förster
2008-09-12 16:56 Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
2008-09-12 23:34 ` Andrew Morton
2008-09-13 15:54 ` Bill Davidsen
2008-09-13 22:56 ` Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski
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