From 510af2e9397373a562aa66f9a8027980057bfa09 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kay Sievers Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:44:28 +0100 Subject: volume_id: ntfs - mark as no other fs must match --- NEWS | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index aec8bb330b..b102ba37a3 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -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 ======== -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf