[parted-devel] [PATCH] More correct handling of the HeaderSize field in GPT labels

[Otavio Salvador]

"Matthew S. Harris" <mharris312 at gmail.com> writes:

> In general, if there end up being multiple, backwards-compatible
> versions of the EFI spec, then Parted should be able to operate on the
> set of headers it knows about and ignore the rest.

That's the major issue. I personally dislike to believe on that.

> In this case, the EFI spec shows a table of the fields in the header,
> and it includes as the last "field" all the remaining space in the
> block.  OpenSolaris interprets this to mean that HeaderSize is the
> size of the block; Parted obviously does not.  This is significant
> because the CRC of the header is supposed to be of HeaderSize bytes.
> That's why this change is needed.

Sorry but I didn't get what you mean by the way of OpenSolaris to
work.

You mean that OpenSolaris cannot check the CRC since it interprets the
size wrongly, is it?

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