Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758218Ab2FQVPm (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Jun 2012 17:15:42 -0400 Received: from mail-ob0-f174.google.com ([209.85.214.174]:64790 "EHLO mail-ob0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757473Ab2FQVPk convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 Jun 2012 17:15:40 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4FDE46E4.7020009@earthlink.net> References: <201206170841.20222.Martin@lichtvoll.de> <4FDDB667.4020609@earthlink.net> <201206171458.58462.Martin@lichtvoll.de> <4FDE46E4.7020009@earthlink.net> Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 23:15:39 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: hwMeS6G4ScVVsjP8vcfxf0GIkSA Message-ID: Subject: Re: Partitions: Amiga RDB partition on 2 TB disk way too big, while OK in AmigaOS 4.1 From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: jdow Cc: Martin Steigerwald , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe , linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1442 Lines: 33 Hi Joanne, On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 11:06 PM, jdow wrote: > I've asked Martin for a digital copy of his RDBs and what he thinks the > partition(s) should look like. I should also be told whether the disk > is supposed to be solely Amiga OSs or not. I gather it's not. His RDB is attached to https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43521 > (And for God's sake do NOT implement the two virus storage tools within > the RDBs, the RDB encapsulated filesystems and the RDB encapsulated > driver code. I worried about that potential since RDBs were first > introduced. Oddly I never heard of them being used. So I kept quiet > about it. These days those facilities could be extended to use signing > and validation certificates, I suppose.) JFYI, I used the former to store my MultiUser File System ;-) Gr{oetje,eeting}s,                         Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.                                 -- Linus Torvalds -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/