Re: [PATCH] partitions/msdos.c

[Andries Brouwer]

On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 01:47:43AM +0100, Uwe Bonnes wrote:

> on a Suse 9.2 System with Suse Hotplug, the phantom partition was somehow
> recognized as Reiserfs, and then the Hotplug mechanism trying to mount the 
> bogus partition as a Reiser Filesystem ended in an Oops...

Always report the oops. It is well-known that mounting garbage may crash
the kernel. Earlier the reply was "don't do that then". Nowadays we have
more layers of software trying to probe and do automatic things, and the
kernel must survive attempts to mount garbage.

Andries
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