Re: rfc: test whether a device has a partition table

[Xavier Bestel]

Le jeu 25/09/2003 à 02:18, Linus Torvalds a écrit :

> The _worst_ thing that can happen is that you have four extra (totally 
> bogus) partitions, and you end up using the whole device.

That means that hotplug/automount will have to re-parse the partition
table itself to mount only the real partitions. So the job is done
twice, in-kernel and in userspace.

Have no doubts that *real* users (like the police force mentionned by
Andries) will let their system automount their USB disks, they'll never
figure out which devices look bogus (dev/sd what ?!?) and which one to
mount.

If the partition discovery and validity check is done in userspace, why
still do it in-kernel ?

	Xav

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