Garance A Drosihn wrote: > 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.
Exactly. If you wanted the dratted thing "unhidden", then you would use the tool you "hid" it with to "unhide" it. > >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. That's really for the FS code to deal with. Handling it any other way means that a corrupt disk can panic the machine. That's a really dumb thing to allow, particularly with removable media. That's just a general principle, totally independant of hiding things; I only point it out because the people who were wanting the "hidden" partition types known to FreeBSD are totally missing the point about what a partition is or isn't, and who's responsible for validating the data therein. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
