Re: [PATCH] block: partitions: efi: Always check for alternative GPT at end of drive

[Davidlohr Bueso]

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