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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-03-16 08:04:07 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-03-16 08:04:07 -0700
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Increase OSF partition limit from 8 to 18
It turns out that while a maximum of 8 partitions may be what people "should" have had, you can actually fit up to 18 entries(*) in a sector. And some people clearly were taking advantage of that, like Michael Cree, who had ten partitions on one of his OSF disks. (*) The OSF partition data starts at byte offset 64 in the first sector, and the array of 16-byte partition entries start at offset 148 in the on-disk partition structure. Reported-by: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz> Cc: stable@kernel.org (v2.6.38) Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--fs/partitions/osf.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/partitions/osf.c b/fs/partitions/osf.c
index be03a0b08b47..764b86a01965 100644
--- a/fs/partitions/osf.c
+++ b/fs/partitions/osf.c
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
#include "check.h"
#include "osf.h"
-#define MAX_OSF_PARTITIONS 8
+#define MAX_OSF_PARTITIONS 18
int osf_partition(struct parsed_partitions *state)
{