Alan Cox wrote:
> > Note that the loss of partitioning can be a serious problem for some
> > people: I just happened to give up on partitioning my DVD RAM media
> > when the change from partion tables in 512 byte sectors to 2048 byte
> > sectors meant that I could not switch kernels anymore.
>
> The partitioning has not changed. If you are seeing partition changes after
> 2.2 you have a bug. Ive got a chunk from 2.2.16 to merge which guesses
> wrong (ie 512 byte sector count) partitions on 2K media.
sr devices don't do partitioning, as far as I know. That's what I was
talking about.
The partitioning change was a long time ago. May have prevented me
from going back to 2.0 I don't remember.
Roger.
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