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Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 00:31:48 +0200
From: Christian Ullrich <chris@chrullrich.de>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: Partitioning problems in 2.4.11
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* Alexander Viro wrote on Thursday, 2001-10-11:

> a) does 2.4.10-ac12 work for you?  It had got essentially the same
> partition-related code that we have in 2.4.11.  I suspect that causes
> of breakage are different, so the answer may not be the same for everybody
> affected.
> 
> d) patch below closes two known holes.  It's known to be not enough in
> one case (see above) and unlikely to help in another (sda9).  However,
> let's get these holes out of the way first.

a) -10-ac11, -10-ac12 and -12 with your patch all behave like -11.

d) The patch does apparently not fix this particular bug.

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