Subject: Re: Why aren't partitions limited to fit within the device?
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, aeb@cwi.nl,
       Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 16:07:27 +0100
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Ar Gwe, 2006-10-13 am 09:50 +1000, ysgrifennodd Neil Brown:
> So:  Is there any good reason to not clip the partitions to fit
> within the device - and discard those that are completely beyond
> the end of the device??

Its close but not quite the right approach

> The patch at the end of the mail does that.  Is it OK to submit this
> to mainline?

No I think not. Any partition which is partly outside the disk should be
ignored entirely, that ensures it doesn't accidentally get mounted and
trashed by an HPA or similar mixup.

I agree it should be fixed, I just don't think your fix is actually a
real fix in this case.

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