On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 01:34:35AM +0100, Karel Zak wrote: > I found something interesting in the old vol_id now. The old code does > not apply the paranoid probing method (check for all filesystems) to > devices smaller than 1.4MB: > > /* > * We probe for all known filesystems to find conflicting signatures. > > [...] > > * We do not want to read that many bytes from probed > * floppies, skip volumes smaller than a usual floppy disk. > */ > > I think we can use the same logic in blkid. Comment? Makes sense to me; we can probably easily completely rule out entire sets of file systems as not working with tiny devices, and the device Linus was complaining about was 256k. :-) - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
