linux-kernel - Re: moving affs + RDB partition support to staging? (was: Re: Moving unmaintained filesystems to staging)

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Date:   Mon, 25 Jun 2018 10:40:23 +0200
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@...il.com>
Cc:     Martin Steigerwald <martin@...htvoll.de>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        David Sterba <dsterba@...e.cz>,
        Linux FS Devel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        linux-m68k <linux-m68k@...ts.linux-m68k.org>,
        jdow <jdow@...thlink.net>,
        John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de>
Subject: Re: moving affs + RDB partition support to staging? (was: Re: Moving
 unmaintained filesystems to staging)

Hi Michael,

On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 9:53 AM Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@...il.com> wrote:
> OK, I'll prepare a patch and submit it to linux-block for review. I'll

Thanks a lot!

> have to refer to your testing back in 2012 since all I can test is
> whether the patch still allows partition tables on small disks to be
> recognized at this time (unless Adrian has a 2 TB disk and a SATA-SCSI
> bridge to test this properly on).

Sparse file and loopback mounting with losetup --partscan?

> Am 24.06.18 um 21:06 schrieb Martin Steigerwald:
> > Michael Schmitz - 27.04.18, 04:11:
> >> test results at https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43511
> >> indicate the RDB parser bug is fixed by the patch given there, so if
> >> Martin now submits the patch, all should be well?
> > Ok, better be honest than having anyone waiting for it:
> >
> > I do not care enough about this, in order to motivate myself preparing
> > the a patch from Joanne Dow´s fix.
> >
> > I am not even using my Amiga boxes anymore, not even the Sam440ep which
> > I still have in my apartment.
> >
> > So RDB support in Linux it remains broken for disks larger 2 TB, unless
> > someone else does.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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