linux-toradex.git/fs/partitions/msdos.c, branch v2.6.32.45

fs/partition/msdos: fix unusable extended partition for > 512B sector

2010-04-01T22:58:44+00:00

commit 8e0cc811e0f8029a7225372fb0951fab102c012f upstream.

Smaller size than a minimum blocksize can't be used, after all it's
handled like 0 size.

For extended partition itself, this makes sure to use bigger size than one
logical sector size at least.

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi 
Cc: Daniel Taylor 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fs/partitions/msdos: add support for large disks

2010-04-01T22:58:43+00:00

commit 3fbf586cf7f245392142e5407c2a56f1cff979b6 upstream.

In order to use disks larger than 2TiB on Windows XP, it is necessary to
use 4096-byte logical sectors in an MBR.

Although the kernel storage and functions called from msdos.c used
"sector_t" internally, msdos.c still used u32 variables, which results in
the ability to handle XP-compatible large disks.

This patch changes the internal variables to "sector_t".

Daniel said: "In the near future, WD will be releasing products that need
this patch".

[hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp: tweaks and fix]
Signed-off-by: Daniel Taylor 
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

block: Do away with the notion of hardsect_size

2009-05-22T21:22:54+00:00

Until now we have had a 1:1 mapping between storage device physical
block size and the logical block sized used when addressing the device.
With SATA 4KB drives coming out that will no longer be the case.  The
sector size will be 4KB but the logical block size will remain
512-bytes.  Hence we need to distinguish between the physical block size
and the logical ditto.

This patch renames hardsect_size to logical_block_size.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

fat: detect media without partition table correctly

2008-04-28T15:58:47+00:00

I received a complaint that some FAT formated medias (e.g.  sd memory cards)
trigger a "unknown partition table" message even though there is no partition
table and they work correctly, while in general (when e.g.  formated with
mkdosfs or even Windows Vista) this message is not shown.

Currently this seems only to happen when the medias get formatted with Windows
XP (and possibly Win 2000).  Then the boot indicator byte contains garbage
(part of text message) and so do the other parts checked by msdos_paritition
which then later triggers this message.

References: novell bug #364365

Most fat formatted media without partition table contains zeros in the boot
indication and the other tested bytes and so falls through the checks in
msdos_partition, leading it to return with 1 (all is fine).

But some (e.g.  WinXP formatted) fat fomated medias don't use boot_ind and so
the check fails and causes a "unkown partition table" warning eventhough there
is none and everything would be fine.

This additional check directly verifies if there is a fat formatted medium
without a partition table.

Signed-off-by: Frank Seidel 
Cc: Andreas Dilger 
Acked-by: OGAWA Hirofumi 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PARTITION] MSDOS: Fix Sun num_partitions handling.

2007-07-30T07:27:28+00:00

Correct the Solaris x86 number of partitions (slices) is a way that is
backward compatible with the earlier size.

This works without a new VTOC structure definition as the timestamp
and v_asciilabel fields in the VTOC are not used by the kernel yet.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fortescue 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6

2007-02-11T19:37:45+00:00

* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
  [SPARC64]: Update defconfig.
  [SPARC64]: Add PCI MSI support on Niagara.
  [SPARC64] IRQ: Use irq_desc->chip_data instead of irq_desc->handler_data
  [SPARC64]: Add obppath sysfs attribute for SBUS and PCI devices.
  [PARTITION]: Add whole_disk attribute.

[PATCH] msdos partitions: fix logic error in AIX detection

2007-02-11T18:51:31+00:00

Correct the AIX magic check to let 'echo > /dev/sdb' actually work.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering 
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi 
Cc: Anton Blanchard 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] relax check for AIX in msdos partition table

2007-02-11T18:51:31+00:00

The patch to identify AIX disks and ignore them has caused at least one
machine to fail to find the root partition on 2.6.19. The patch is:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/31/117

The problem is some disk formatters do not blow away the first 4 bytes
of the disk. If the disk we are installing to used to have AIX on it,
then the first 4 bytes will still have IBMA in EBCDIC.

The install in question was debian etch. Im not sure what the best fix
is, perhaps the AIX detection code could check more than the first 4
bytes.

The whole partition info for primary partitions is in this block:

  dd if=/dev/sdb count=$(( 4 * 16 )) bs=1 skip=$(( 0x1be ))

All other data do not matter, beside the 0x55aa marker at the end of the
first block.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering 
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi 
Cc: Anton Blanchard 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PARTITION]: Add whole_disk attribute.

2007-02-11T07:50:00+00:00

Some partitioning systems create special partitions that
span the entire disk.  One example are Sun partitions, and
this whole-disk partition exists to tell the firmware the
extent of the entire device so it can load the boot block
and do other things.

Such partitions should not be treated as normal partitions,
because all the other partitions overlap this whole-disk one.
So we'd see multiple instances of the same UUID etc. which
we do not want.  udev and friends can thus search for this
'whole_disk' attribute and use it to decide to ignore the
partition.

Signed-off-by: Fabio Massimo Di Nitto 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

[PATCH] fs/partitions endianness annotations

2006-10-10T23:15:34+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds