#12290: recent nightlies can no longer read BFS of older nightlies
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Reporter: taos | Owner: nobody
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: Unscheduled
Component: Partitioning Systems/Intel | Version: R1/Development
Resolution: | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: All
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Comment (by axeld):
Ah, great! `mkfs` could actually do this, since it's using the disk device
manager to carry out its task anyway. If you're using `dd`, you're on your
own anyway.
Changing the priorities to improve the situation could prove to be
problematic:
* GPT always returns 0.96 in order to override Intel in case of an
existing compatibility MBR.
* BFS always returns 0.8
* Intel returns either 0.81 when there are children (in order to override
BFS), or 0.5 if not.
So having GPT greater than Intel, and Intel greater than BFS, and BFS
greater than GPT sounds impossible :-)
I think the only way we could improve the situation is to lower the GPT
score to 0.75 if there is only the end header accessible. However, this
would probably hinder your use case.
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Ticket URL: <https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/12290#comment:9>
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