svn commit: r197608 - head/sys/geom/part

Dmitry Marakasov amdmi3 at amdmi3.ru
Tue Sep 29 14:54:50 UTC 2009


* John Baldwin (jhb at freebsd.org) wrote:

> Why do you check for zeros at all?  AFAIK, the only real check is for AA55 at 
> the end of the sector (and having an MBR or other Extended MBR partition 
> entry point at the sector in question).  The '96' thing seems rather 
> arbitrary in the code, and I think the zero's check is overly restrictive.

Seconded. I've seen a report of geom_part_ebr unable to detect
partitions which were actually there. Will inquiry the reporter if
this change solved the problem.

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