On 6/28/07, Tejun Heo <htejun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Greg Freemyer wrote: > Does it simply fail? Or does it corrupt? > > In my Windows experience, if you try to write data past ~128GiB and > you don't have LBA48 support you get a wraparound effect that causes > corruption of the data below ~128GiB. I've seen it happen several > times under Win2K in particular. It will probably wrap and corrupt data. The driver is already marked HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL. Do you think we need bigger hammer? -- tejun
At a minimum the error msg should be much stronger than "won't work". Something like "will be horribly corrupted and all your valuable data will be lost." Even better from my perspective would be to simply cause a > 128GiB drive to be ignored and totally unaccessible. Obviously it should have a message to that effect. ie. Assume you have a partition that spans the 128 GiB barrier. If you allow access to the first half of the partition and not the last, you have another major corruption possibility even though you don't have any wrap-around affects. Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
