Re: dd and mbr

From: Valeri Galtsev <galtsev_at_kicp.uchicago.edu>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2022 23:57:40 UTC

On 1/11/22 6:30 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
> In message <20220111192642.937bfcdc22b00a386009fdd7@sohara.org>,
> Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> wrote:
> 
>> 	As you have found fdisk is one weird piece of software, it's faking
>> up a default because it read invalid data - the default being what you want
>> if you're going to install FreeBSD on the whole thing.
> 
> That's bad.  It shouldn't do that.
> 
> Isn't life already hard enough without having our software tools lie
> to us?

It's bad enough that drive firmware lies on its interface (aka record 
completed before data is on platters, i.e. in volatile cache).

Valeri

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