#6487: [intel] overlapping partitions cannot be detected ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: rainbow-demon | Owner: marcusoverhagen Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: R1 Component: Drivers/Disk | Version: R1/Development Resolution: | Keywords: intel, overlapping Blocked By: | Has a Patch: 0 Platform: All | Blocking: ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Comment (by axeld): This is a classical problem, and usually I think one should always try to be as forgiving as possible when reading data. Ie. always write standards conforming data, but do an effort and try to read anything out there. We could just cut off the overlapping part of the earlier partition always, and let the file system decide whether or not it fits in there - BFS already checks this during mount. If the file system doesn't fit, it could mount itself read-only at least, so that you could still access the data. That would completely prevent a layering violation, and is still as convenient as it can get without risking any data loss. -- Ticket URL: <http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/6487#comment:8> Haiku <http://dev.haiku-os.org> Haiku - the operating system.