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DateFri, 12 Sep 2008 13:59:52 -0400
From"Bob Copeland" <>
SubjectRe: Partition check considered as error is breaking mounting in 2.6.27
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> wrote:
>> I don't know if this change of behaviour in 2.6.27 is desired (not creating
>> partition nodes if its size exceeds media size).
>
> I have to believe that it _is_ desired. Why else would that commit
> have been merged?

Several people objected to similar patches when they were posted on
LKML in the past, usually for the reason "this breaks my forensics use
case." I guess no one objected this time around.

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=116069718613683&w=2

(I don't have an opinion, I'm just providing collective memory.)

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Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com


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