[Parted-maintainers] Bug#245753: Bug #245753 - overlapping partitions are not an error with BSD disklabels

[Phillip Susi]

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On 1/15/2013 2:43 PM, Steve Langasek wrote:
> They are mapped at runtime; essentially you would see /dev/sda1
> (/dev/sda3? whatever) as an alias to /dev/sda.

Linux won't allow this, so the best thing parted will be able to do is
ignore the partition and you won't actually get the runtime mapping.

>> How can I reproduce this?
> 
> Not easily at all.  You'd need hardware of a particular
> architecture, and a copy of a proprietary Unix, to natively create
> a relevant disklabel or to validate that the disklabel is
> compatible.

Is there some sort of flag in the disklabel that indicates this is
such a partition?  If so then parted could at least allow creating one
and ignore it for the overlap check.

Or should this bug just be closed?


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