On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 01:34, Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> 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? Oh, I forgot about that thing. Nice finding. Sounds like a reasonable option to me, to make an exception to the rule to cross-check for all filesystems when the volume is floppy-size like. The risk to see conflicting signatureshould be minimal on such volumes, they are very likely FAT. Thanks, Kay -- 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
