Re: Answer (Re: Cylinder limits jumper for drives over 32GB)

From: Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Date: Wed Mar 29 2000 - 05:12:59 EST


Hi!

> Second point, if I do set the "protected memory area" to retain the drive
> size, I have to guarentee that Linux will revert the drive capacity to a
> limit below the 32GB.........
>
> AGAIN, you expect LINUX to absorb the WRATH of FS DESTRUCTION, if for some
> reason you have to boot a resque-disk that does not have this little
> disk-inflator feature..........

What happens? Currently booted linux sees partition table horribly
wrong and refusing to mount partitions that span last 8Gig. Where is
the FS destruction?

> FS CORUPTION is one thing (accidently introduced and fixed)
> FS DESTRUCTION is another thing (caused by willful tinkering with a
> device)
                                                                Pavel

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