Karsten Hopp wrote: > Thanks for applying the small patch ! > > FYI: > I've opened a bugzilla about your udev concerns to get some comments from our > and the upstream maintainer at > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=245717 > > Kay Sievers from the udev team responded: > #> That's nothing new. Guessing filesystems by magic bytes on the disk is by > #> definition unsafe. > #> > #> _All_ filesystem formatters are required to wipe out _all_ existing > signatures > #> before applying a new signature. Even then, it's not entirely safe to > probe, but > #> we obviously have no alternatives.
We fought this for a while in xfs, trying to be sure we wipe out old fs signatures at mkfs time. It'd be nice to have a library to do such things... -Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
