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Increase OSF partition limit from 8 to 18
authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:04:07 +0000 (08:04 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:04:07 +0000 (08:04 -0700)
commit34d211a2d5df4984a35b18d8ccacbe1d10abb067
treeaac4a192b633860419fc2429d6c8b37beb3390a5
parentbab1d9444d9a147f1dc3478dd06c16f490227f3e
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>
fs/partitions/osf.c