[parted-devel] Atari label false positives

[Michael Schmitz]

Hi Adrian,

Am 12.05.2018 um 23:24 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz:
> On 05/12/2018 10:41 AM, Michael Schmitz wrote:
>>>> Do you have a dump of the root sector (plus additional eventual
>>>> extended
>>>> partition root sector) from these bugs?
>>>
>>> This is a very good point. We should have a look at the probing code in
>>> the kernel because apparently the problem doesn't exist there.
>>
>> It may not exist because the MSDOS partition detection is specific
>> enough to reject Atari partition tables. But still, compare the kernel
>> partition parsers to see what may be missing.
> 
> Which would mean that the kernel probes for DOS partition tables before
> Atari partition tables, wouldn't it?

Yes, it does (as I had stated earlier - block/partitions/checks.c has
only a few rather more specific formats listed before MSDOS. Sorry if
that wasn't clear.).

> 
> Adrian
>