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

[Bob Copeland]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.)

-- 
Bob Copeland %% www.bobcopeland.com
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/