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Re: New HFS Patch 12.5 fix a dangerous bug
From: |
B.Hakvoort |
Subject: |
Re: New HFS Patch 12.5 fix a dangerous bug |
Date: |
Wed, 01 Sep 2004 16:44:58 +0200 |
Hi,
Did this patch never made it in the official libparted source? And if
so, why not?
Regards,
Bart
On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 16:38, K.G. wrote:
> Hi everybody !
>
> I found a quite serious bug in my handling of fragmented catalog, extents
> overflow, and attributes files (they are low level files containing the FS
> structures).
> It can happen when you have lot of files and these low level files were
> not large enough during the file system creation to handle all your
> files, so the kernel implementation grow them non ontiguously to let you
> store every files you want.
> As this bug can potentially damage data, I've released the HFS 12.5 patch
> which fix this issue :
> http://xilun.nerim.net/Projet/Parted/parted-1.6.12-hfs-12.5.patch
>
> I urge people using or maintaining previous versions for distro to quickly
> switch to that one. Despite its name, it should work with every version
> of Parted between 1.6.5 and 1.6.12 if hfs.c, hfs.h, and disk_mac.c
> are correctly patched.
>
> I'm also testing the 13th one which will include more bugfixes (beta
> available here : http://xilun.nerim.net/Projet/Parted/Beta/) and also
> code cleanups.
>
> Cheers,
> Guillaume Knispel.
>
>
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- New HFS Patch 12.5 fix a dangerous bug, K . G ., 2004/09/01
- Re: New HFS Patch 12.5 fix a dangerous bug,
B.Hakvoort <=
- Re: New HFS Patch 12.5 fix a dangerous bug, Andrew Clausen, 2004/09/07
- Re: New HFS Patch 12.5 fix a dangerous bug, K . G ., 2004/09/07
- Re: New HFS Patch 12.5 fix a dangerous bug, Andrew Clausen, 2004/09/08
- Re: New HFS Patch 12.5 fix a dangerous bug, K . G ., 2004/09/08
- Re: New HFS Patch 12.5 fix a dangerous bug, Stewart Smith, 2004/09/09
- Re: New HFS Patch 12.5 fix a dangerous bug, Sven Luther, 2004/09/09
- Re: New HFS Patch 12.5 fix a dangerous bug, Andrew Clausen, 2004/09/09
- Re: New HFS Patch 12.5 fix a dangerous bug, K . G ., 2004/09/09