11 Feb, 2007

1 commit

  • Some partitioning systems create special partitions that
    span the entire disk. One example are Sun partitions, and
    this whole-disk partition exists to tell the firmware the
    extent of the entire device so it can load the boot block
    and do other things.

    Such partitions should not be treated as normal partitions,
    because all the other partitions overlap this whole-disk one.
    So we'd see multiple instances of the same UUID etc. which
    we do not want. udev and friends can thus search for this
    'whole_disk' attribute and use it to decide to ignore the
    partition.

    Signed-off-by: Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
     

17 Apr, 2005

1 commit

  • Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
    even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
    archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
    3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
    git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
    infrastructure for it.

    Let it rip!

    Linus Torvalds