[parted-devel] nested extended dos partitions

[Bryn M. Reeves]

Karel Zak wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 12:56:50PM +0000, Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
>> Is this valid at all? I'm not able to find examples of this nor tools
> 
>  I don't know, but I agree that this "feature" is very very strange.
> 
>> that will create or interpret such a PT (e.g. the kernel msdos code
> 
>  Libparted and fdisk are able to read (but not create) such a PT.
> 
>> doesn't handle this and contains a comment that so far there seems to
>> be no reason to allow this).
> 
>  Maybe we should remove all support for nested extended partitions
>  from our tools.

I'd happily agree to that. Is anyone else aware of any legitimate use 
for such a PT or systems/tools that will produce/recognise this?

Regards,
Bryn.