On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Pavel Roskin<pro...@gnu.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 22:35 +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> This is still allowed:
>
> MBR ----------------> Ext
> Logical <-----/
AFAIK this isn't even possible since e->start is unsigned and
references to logical partitions from ext label are relative to
position of ext while ext->ext reference are relative to the first
position of ext.
>
> This is what I want to forbid:
>
> MBR ----------------> Ext
> Ext <----/
> \--------------> Logical
>
> I don't think any tool would create that insanity.
>
If I remember correctly DiskDrake created something like
MBR----------------> Ext --> Logical
\-------------------------------------------------->Ext -----> Logical
Ext<------------------------/
\----->Logical
>> A big problem with pc partitions is that AFAIK there is no normative
>> standard for it, only descriptive documents
>
> Yes, it's a typical "industry standard" :-(
>
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> Pavel Roskin
>
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