Messages in this thread | | | From | "Ulrich Windl" <> | Date | Fri, 19 Apr 1996 08:33:56 +0200 | Subject | Re: Ext2 Problem |
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On 18 Apr 96 at 14:03, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 03:11:51 +0200 > From: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl > > There is a bad bug in the ext2 file system, namely the fact > that the magic number is not stored in the same relative > position as minix uses. > > This is not really a bug in the ext2 filesystem --- *all* of the > filesystems store their magic numbers at different offsets. > > A clean solution to all of this would be to have the genhd code store > the partition type code in the partition table along with all of the > rest of the partition table's vital statistics, and then have the root > filesystem autodetection code use that type code as a hint to see which > filesystem it should try to mount first.
Just an idea: There's a lot of room in the first cylinder (track?) of each new partition. For my SCSI 1GB disk these are 7MB per cylinder. Not even OS/2 boot manager needs it all. Now we need a good idea...
> > - Ted > >
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