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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0809121420240.14509-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org> Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:21:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu> To: Bob Copeland <me@...copeland.com> cc: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@...driva.com.br>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>, <bogdano@...driva.com.br>, "Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino" <lcapitulino@...driva.com.br> Subject: Re: Partition check considered as error is breaking mounting in 2.6.27 On Fri, 12 Sep 2008, Bob Copeland wrote: > On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu> 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.) Well, Herton can object and ask to have the offending commit reverted. Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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