[haiku-development] Re: Help needed in ddm_userland_interface code sample

  • From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2015 23:27:10 +0100

On 04.02.2015 20:14, Jessica Hamilton wrote:

On 5/02/2015 1:54 AM, "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
 > Am 04.02.2015 um 13:52 schrieb Axel Dörfler:
 >
 >> It's a similar situation as outlined above: GPT partitions can include
 >> MBR partitions to improve compatibility with old operating systems --
 >> the GPT header is placed in the 2nd block.
 >> Therefore, GPT has a higher priority than MBR. If you now reinitialize
 >> the disk as MBR without removing the GPT header block, it will still be
 >> recognized as GPT.
 >
 > BTW there is even a related bug: https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/8823

Perhaps we need to introduce an operation for partition and disk systems
to erase themselves?


http://cgit.haiku-os.org/haiku/tree/headers/private/kernel/disk_device_manager/ddm_modules.h#n102

CU, Ingo

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