linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sun disk label: fix signed int usage for sector count

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Date:	Sat, 26 Aug 2006 09:32:06 +0200 (MEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
To:	Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@...e.com>
cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sun disk label: fix signed int usage for sector count

>
> The current sun disklabel code uses a signed int for the sector count. When
> partitions larger than 1 TB are used, the cast to a sector_t causes the
> partition sizes to be invalid:
>

Is not it that the sun disklabel does not even support 
[ptabs/partitions] more than 1 TB?


Jan Engelhardt
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