Re: fdisk issue

[Michael Neumann <mneumann@xxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
> :> To conclude, I am very sorry that you had to screw open your laptop 
> :> several times to make it work again.  I'll commit a fix ASAP.
> :
> :Does this look good?
> :<http://chlamydia.fs.ei.tum.de/~corecode/unsorted/fdisk-fix.diff>
>
>     I'm not sure we should change this.  The standard specifically says
>     all 1's for disks which exceed the CHS limits.  Wrapped values can
>     create massive problems if the HD in question happens to cause a wrap
>     that makes the disk look really really tiny.

Hm, but I think this never really happens! FreeBSD doesn't do that (they 
even don't have an option to set all 1's), and I think no one ever had 
problems with it.

Regards,

  Michael