[openbeosstorage] Re: session module
- From: "Ingo Weinhold" <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeosstorage@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 20:18:40 CET (+0100)
>
> "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.
Mmh, that would work, I believe, but I am too lazy to implement it now.
;-)
I think, I put it on a TODO list for the time being.
> 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.
I think, that was the right punishment for you for getting involved
with The Evil. ;-)
CU, Ingo
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