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| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 14 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | extras/volume_id/lib/ntfs.c | 3 |
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -14,6 +14,20 @@ functionality. Installations which support old kernels, but install current default udev rules may need to add that to the compat rules file. +Libvolume_id now always probes for all known filesystems, and does not +stop at the first match. Some filesystems are marked as "exclusive probe" +and if one of these filesytem types match, libvolume_id will not return +a probing result if any other filesystem type matches. This is intended +to help with conflicting left-over signatures from earlier file system +formats. That way, we no longer depend on the probing order for competing +signatures. +In some cases the kernel allows to mount a volume with the old filesystem +type, before it has been re-formatted with a different type. This can +damage the new filesystem and lead to data loss. Because volume_id can +not decide which is the correct signature, the wrong signatures need to +be removed manually from the volume, or the volume needs to be reformatted +to make filesystem auto-detection and possible auto-mounting working. + udev 132 ======== diff --git a/extras/volume_id/lib/ntfs.c b/extras/volume_id/lib/ntfs.c index f861b4bf28..b322c77dbd 100644 --- a/extras/volume_id/lib/ntfs.c +++ b/extras/volume_id/lib/ntfs.c @@ -195,6 +195,7 @@ int volume_id_probe_ntfs(struct volume_id *id, uint64_t off, uint64_t size) volume_id_set_usage(id, VOLUME_ID_FILESYSTEM); id->type = "ntfs"; - + /* we think this is ntfs, but we make sure no other signatures are found */ + id->force_unique_result = 1; return 0; } |