Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Apr 2016 11:10:18 -0700 | From | Davidlohr Bueso <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] block: partitions: efi: Always check for alternative GPT at end of drive |
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On Tue, 26 Apr 2016, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote:
>At the absolute minimum, we should be logging (at least at a warning >level) that we had to fall back the the backup GPT. If somebody is >dealing with a disk that had a torn write to the primary GPT, that's >one thing, but this could also be caused by any number of other >problems (hardware issues, malicious intent, etc), and we need to log >that we detected corrupted data.
We already complain about corrupted primary gpt (at a warn level), and there's also plenty of verbosity about differences between primary and backup (see compare_gpts()), or are you referring to something else?
Thanks, Davidlohr
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