Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:21:37 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alan Stern <> | Subject | Re: Partition check considered as error is breaking mounting in 2.6.27 |
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On Fri, 12 Sep 2008, Bob Copeland wrote:
> 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.)
Well, Herton can object and ask to have the offending commit reverted.
Alan Stern
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