tree aac4a192b633860419fc2429d6c8b37beb3390a5
parent bab1d9444d9a147f1dc3478dd06c16f490227f3e
author Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1300287847 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 1300287847 -0700

Increase OSF partition limit from 8 to 18

It turns out that while a maximum of 8 partitions may be what people
"should" have had, you can actually fit up to 18 entries(*) in a sector.

And some people clearly were taking advantage of that, like Michael
Cree, who had ten partitions on one of his OSF disks.

(*) The OSF partition data starts at byte offset 64 in the first sector,
    and the array of 16-byte partition entries start at offset 148 in
    the on-disk partition structure.

Reported-by: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz>
Cc: stable@kernel.org (v2.6.38)
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>