Re: Mounting ext2fs instead of ffs after 5.99.60 (SOLVED)

[Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>]

apb@ wrote:

> On Sun, 05 Feb 2012, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> >+            /* Also zap possible Ext2fs magic leftover. */
> >+            zap_old_sblock(1024);   /* XXX: SBOFF in ext2fs.h */
> 
> Instead of keeping an ever-growing list of locations where other
> file systems keep their magic numbers, it might be better to just
> zero the first and last N megabytes of the {disk, partition, image}.

There is a comment in zap_old_sblock():

>>      /* The sector might contain boot code, so we must validate it */

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Izumi Tsutsui