Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:59:52 -0400 | | From | "Bob Copeland" <> | | Subject | Re: Partition check considered as error is breaking mounting in 2.6.27 |
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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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