On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 03:40:10PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 15:16, Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
> >
> > This change has been requested by many people. We already have
> > really bad experience with more valid FS signatures on one device.
> >
> > [CC: Ted and Kay; we had a discussion about this change few months ago]
>
> Looks good to me.
>
> > /dev/sdb1 originally initialized by cryptsetup:
> >
> > and OLD mkswap:
> >
> > # vol_id /dev/sdb1 | grep TYPE
> > ID_FS_TYPE=swap
>
> Just to check: That's an old version of vol_id, right? The current one
Yeah, the old version.
> should refuse to return anything for conflicting signatures.
>
> > # blkid -s TYPE /dev/sdb1
> > /dev/sdb1: TYPE="crypt_LUKS"
>
> > So, we have two different *valid* signatures on the device now!
>
> Your version of blkid, which we will switch-over to next month, would
> also not return any probing result here, right?
Right. There are two functions, blkid_do_probe() and
blkid_do_safeprobe() -- safeprobe checks for collisions.
Karel
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