At 3:46 PM -0800 12/1/02, Terry Lambert wrote:
[ ... Partition ID changes ... ]
> > But as I said, this is rather marginal and I really don't
> > feel it should go in unless this xor-0x10 convention is
> > more widespread.
>
> partition magic does this too. isn't the correct failure mode
> just to print the part. id in hex instead of expanding it?
Frankly, who cares?
You guys still haven't told us, if these partitions are being
hidden... WHY ARE WE NOT RESPECTING THE DECISION TO HIDE THE
THINGS? A user installed the software doing the hiding on
purpose. The software changed the ID hide it, on purpose.
Windows ignores these partitions -- on purpose.
Well, all Nate said was "print the field in hex". That seems
like the right thing to do, and it has nothing to do with this
hiding scheme.
My own opinion is that if I have explicitly hid a partition,
then freebsd should ignore it. There are times that I do this
specifically so *freebsd* will ignore it, and I don't want
freebsd trying to second-guess what I meant.
If you're going that route, why does FreeBSD care about partition
ID at all? All it is is a *hint*; it's not definitive. It's not
lika a protocol type encapsulation on a packet.
It doesn't matter what the ID says, the rest of the partition
table entry demarcates a region of a linear arraw of bytes that
contain data.
I think looking at the content of that linear array is what
should determine what the content is, in the absence of a valid
"hint".
Specifically, if it has a valid disklabel on the thing, I don't
care what partition ID it has on it, I give it to the disklabel
handler. If it has a valid FAT32 FS on it, I give it to the
FAT32FS. If it has a valid FFS superblock on it, I give it to
FFS. Etc..
The fact that the disklabel is valid does not mean that the
filesystem in that partition is still valid. If I hide a
partition, it may be that I had a very good reason for hiding
it, and freebsd shouldn't be "giving it" to anything when the
partition ID is not a recognized ID.
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