>>> Sometimes partitions claim to be larger than the reported capacity of a >>> disk device. This patch makes the kernel ignore those partitions. >>> >> Or, while doing forensics on a disk one copies the start to some >> other disk, and that other disk may be smaller. >> Etc. >> >> So, it seems that Linux loses a little bit of its power when such things >> are made impossible. >> >I've had similar situations when trying to recover data from failed devices. >Equally - if you don't know what's going on then partition/disk size >mismatch is a bad thing. >A loud warning may be more appropriate (and useful) than an ignore. I also consider a warning message more helpful. OTOH, what if the disk will be automounted at boot? The boot scripts won't catch it if it just a warning, whereas if it was ignored, no mount would occur. Maybe a bootparam toggling warning/ignore as the solution? Jan Engelhardt -- - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
