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SubjectRe: Partition check considered as error is breaking mounting in 2.6.27
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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