On 12-05-03 08:47 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Il 03/05/2012 14:40, Mark Lord ha scritto: >>>> >>>> Breaking "hdparm --write-sector /dev/sda1"? I call it a security fix. >> No, that would plain stupid on both our parts. :) >> The --write-sector flag is allowed only for non-partitions by hdparm itself. > > Excuse my laziness--how does it check? I don't know if there's a feasible fool-proof method or not. But what hdparm does is look at the sector offset of the device. Partitions normally have a non-zero offset. >> But other flags commonly used by distros at boot time >> seem to be triggering the current in-kernel noise. >> Dunno which flags, I'm just ignoring them and waiting >> for the noise message to get reverted. > > That's exactly the behavior I hoped to get when I added the warnings. > Or maybe not. :) What are the messages? > i.e. what ioctl do they complain about? As above: >> Dunno which flags, I'm just ignoring them and waiting >> for the noise message to get reverted. -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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
