On Iau, 2006-05-11 at 09:27 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > "Mike Miller (OS Dev)" <mikem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 12:41:38PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > "Mike Miller (OS Dev)" <mikem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > Patch 1/1 > > > > Sometimes partitions claim to be larger than the reported capacity of a > > > > disk device. This patch makes the kernel ignore those partitions. The problem with ignoring such partitions is that you will then get burned on some PC setups and also that existing partitions may move number on some partitioning schemes. Allocating them but setting the reported size to zero would cure the latter problem, but I'm not sure what the right thing to do is about extended partition tables that look like this 0 Partition Table Bootblock ... Extended Partition to disk end Partition HPA-------------------------- (reported disk size) Suspend partition BIOS bits disk end ----- ie /dev/hda5 might be valid but not /dev/hda4 which contains it... - : 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
