From: Mark Fortescue <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:47:29 +0100 (BST) > Add in fix to prevent the VTOC table being used if it is not present > (it was not implemented until Solaris 2.x so SunOS 4.1.x will not have > valid VTOC data) and correct the Solaris x86 number of partitions (slices). > > Signed-off-by: Mark Fortescue <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> All fdisk and parted implemented before about a few weeks ago under Linux do not set the sanity value, they don't even set the version field. So you cannot add this change without breaking pretty much every Linux/Sparc installation out there, it will be years before everyone has fixed up disk labels. In fact it is a feature that the Linux Sun disk label code was so permissive, Solaris refuses to recognize the disk label created by existing Linux systems and this causes a lot of problems. Sorry you cannot make this change without breaking things severely even though I understand what you want to make it. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
