Bug#255597: Installation Target on Second IDE Drive
severity 255597 grave
thanks
Quoting Frans Pop (aragorn@tiscali.nl):
> Although this case is fairly exceptional, I have assigned severity important
> until it has been determined whether having e.g. only the first partitions
> the same size on two disks would also result in generating the same ID.
> Also, this could be a problem for identically partitioned disks used in a
> RAID.
> This problem could cause data loss for an inattentive user!
IMHO, this deserves a RC severity (grave). As soon as we identity a
potential data loss, which Martin did on that case, the bug should be
tagged as RC, no matter it may happen very rarely.. ;-)
>
> Solution could be to use target and partition numbers in calculating the
> partition ID's.
Frans, do you think you can take a look at this? Otherwise, I guess
Anton should.
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