Re: kern/40360: fictitious disklabels do not handle devices without an MBR

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/40360; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: kern-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
        netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/40360: fictitious disklabels do not handle devices without an 
MBR
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:39:48 +0000

 On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 07:25:01PM +0000, jmcneill%invisible.ca@localhost 
wrote:
 > >Synopsis:       fictitious disklabels do not handle devices without an MBR
 ...
 > >Description:
 >      When inserting a USB device that only contains a FAT filesystems,
 >      the auto-generated disklabel incorrectly reports a 4.2BSD filesystem
 >      at the beginning of the device.
 
 The filesystem type in the disklabel is fairly irrelevant.
 Nothing during mount looks at it - so it is really just a comment.
 (except maybe for swap).
 
 It is more important that the fictitious label contain a partition
 that covers the entire disk.
 
        David
 
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 David Laight: david%l8s.co.uk@localhost