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

[Austin S. Hemmelgarn]

On 2016-04-26 14:10, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> 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?
Ah, you're right, somehow I had missed this.