severity 255597 grave
thanks

Quoting Frans Pop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):

> 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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