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

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Date:	Tue, 26 Apr 2016 11:10:18 -0700
From:	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>
To:	"Austin S. Hemmelgarn" <ahferroin7@...il.com>
Cc:	Julius Werner <jwerner@...omium.org>, linux-efi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
	Gwendal Grignou <gwendal@...omium.org>,
	Doug Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>,
	Karel Zak <kzak@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: partitions: efi: Always check for alternative GPT
 at end of drive

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