Re: fs/partitions/msdos.c, scripts/packages/Makefile

[Andries Brouwer]

On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 07:18:52PM +0200, Uwe Zybell wrote:

> There is a line in fs/partitions/msdos.c that lets extended partitions 
> be max 1k (..."==1 ? 1 : 2"...). The comment explains it to protect 
> sysadmins from themselves. But now I have found a legitimate use
> for extended partitions in their full length. Emulation.
> Please remove this, or make it a config option.

Config options are evil. Adding them is a bad form of bloat.

Whatever you want to do, there are many ways to do it without
changing this part of the kernel code. After all, any partition
is just part of the entire disk.

Note that there are aliasing problems - it is bad to access data
both via a file system and via raw disk or partition.

Andries
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