>hmm, on Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 02:29:25PM -0600, Theo de Raadt said that >> > i think it doesnt matter what the user is, this shouldnt >> > be happening. >> >> We make the source code available, and yet noone here has even sat down >> for 30 seconds and gone and checked the kernel msdos mount code and realized >> that it almost nothing it can validate a filesystem on. > >does that almost nothing include the partition type number? >because i dont see why would the kernel msdos mount code >even try to start mounting an msdos filesystem with type of A6. > >> It saw that space of disk, validated it as msdos, and mounted it. >> >> This is not ffs. When you do stuff like that, we are not your nanny. > >are you really implying that there is no way to identify >a partition as various types of FAT? i think it's time >that you did some reading..
ffs does not use the first 8K of a partition. You used to have MSDOS on there. Thanks for telling me do so some reading, but a google of your name on these mailing lists will show a 10 year pattern of you not being able to self-help. Something to do with your parents, probably.
