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From: Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@gmail.com>
To: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>,
	Phillip Susi <psusi@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Debian m68k <debian-68k@lists.debian.org>,
	Linux/m68k <linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org>,
	Parted development <parted-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Subject: Re: [parted-devel] Atari label false positives
Date: Sun, 13 May 2018 07:22:17 +1200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fc99627f-ebb7-d556-2f69-72b4f5a557ef@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fee352b1-4dbc-b02e-65b1-f138e84a6042@physik.fu-berlin.de>

Hi Adrian,

Am 12.05.2018 um 23:24 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz:
> On 05/12/2018 10:41 AM, Michael Schmitz wrote:
>>>> Do you have a dump of the root sector (plus additional eventual
>>>> extended
>>>> partition root sector) from these bugs?
>>>
>>> This is a very good point. We should have a look at the probing code in
>>> the kernel because apparently the problem doesn't exist there.
>>
>> It may not exist because the MSDOS partition detection is specific
>> enough to reject Atari partition tables. But still, compare the kernel
>> partition parsers to see what may be missing.
> 
> Which would mean that the kernel probes for DOS partition tables before
> Atari partition tables, wouldn't it?

Yes, it does (as I had stated earlier - block/partitions/checks.c has
only a few rather more specific formats listed before MSDOS. Sorry if
that wasn't clear.).

> 
> Adrian
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2018-05-12 19:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <2d6f5455-963d-b044-a64d-67634df46071@ubuntu.com>
     [not found] ` <2d6f5455-963d-b044-a64d-67634df46071-GeWIH/nMZzLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2018-05-11 15:29   ` Atari label false positives John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
     [not found]     ` <35ad9889-bc13-56bd-7831-f7bb3eea2d1e-1Olz3AKvcsuAKZTfuerNgRvVK+yQ3ZXh@public.gmane.org>
2018-05-11 15:56       ` Phillip Susi
     [not found]         ` <874bf955-d5bc-5d9c-0f87-445da67f3bdd-GeWIH/nMZzLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2018-05-11 16:10           ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2018-05-11 18:30             ` [parted-devel] " Richard Z
2018-05-11 23:17         ` Michael Schmitz
     [not found]           ` <80a28dd6-ce19-e6ed-fc7a-c5561fecf989-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2018-05-12  7:59             ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2018-05-12  8:41               ` [parted-devel] " Michael Schmitz
     [not found]                 ` <c1bf0748-f7e0-b109-8c9e-26f8a2c70bf3-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2018-05-12 11:24                   ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2018-05-12 19:22                     ` Michael Schmitz [this message]
2018-05-14 13:02                   ` Phillip Susi

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