[LinuxBIOS] patch: extending LAR, and removing elf from linuxbios (it is not needed)

Uwe Hermann uwe at hermann-uwe.de
Tue Aug 28 17:34:06 CEST 2007


On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 04:59:58PM +0200, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> Can we change the MAGIC to some less likely string, perhaps even with
> version info? A lot of filesystems have mixed-case magic strings, for
> example ReiserFS has "ReIsErFs" or "ReIsEr2Fs" or "ReIsEr3Fs". Nobody is
> going to include such a string by accident in his code.

Yes, good idea IMO.

Maybe 'LAR Magic 0.01' or something similar?


Uwe.
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