[openbeosstorage] Re: session module

"Ingo Weinhold" <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[...]
> > I don't think real sessions will ever actually overlap; I believe 
> > they 
> > just refer to data outside their own session using absolute disc 
> > addresses. 
> Sure, but a bad partition table may specify that too partitions span 
> overlapping areas. That's what I mean. The partition module rejecting 
> the session, as done now, is a very simple solution, but, if one 
> doesn't do that, one has to decide, what to present to the user. Both 
> partitions=3F One=3F None=3F

That's a good question. I would just iterate them in standard order and 
throw away anything that overlaps. That should be almost clean.
In fact, I had this once, since the f&#=3Fing fdisk tool from Windows 98 
created a partition in the middle of the hard disk that spanned over 
two other partitions - fortunately, I didn't lost anything due to that, 
and I could remove the partition without any problems later again.

Adios...
   Axel.

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