Re: [PATCH 2/2] fs/partition/msdos: Fix unusable extended partitionfor > 512B sector

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 03/11/2010 01:25 PM, Daniel Taylor wrote:
> I have not yet tried booting from one of these disks.
>
> They are in USB-attached enclosures,

Right...

> attached well after boot, so the
> bootloader has never seen them.

Wrong.  A lot of BIOSes will attempt to boot from USB storage.  Worse, a 
fair number of BIOSes will hang during startup if a USB storage device 
that confuses them -- even if not the primary boot device.

> They simply refuse to mount to a running
> Linux system because, when the storage for partition size and start was
> expanded to 64-bit, no one bothered to fix the intermediate storage in
> msdos.c, so the kernel cannot locate the start nor figure the size of
> the partitions.
>
> Logically, this patch is not complicated.  The data types in msdos.c
> are flat-out wrong, given that the real stored data is of type sector_t.
> The intermediate variables should not be u32.

I would consider this a bugfix.  As such, it should be pushed outside 
the merge window.

	-hpa
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