Subject: Re: bug#16231: [PATCH 0/9] Refactored loop fixes

From: Phillip Susi <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 09:32:33 -0400

On 5/21/2014 8:42 PM, Brian C. Lane wrote:
> The problem is that the ntfs probe has a fixed 512b buffer and
> tries to read a whole sector into it. The fat probes may also have
> similar issues.

You must be using an out of date tree; commit 80678bdd957cf4 fixed that:

 static PedGeometry*
 ntfs_probe (PedGeometry* geom)
 {
- -       char    buf[512];
+       char    *buf = alloca (geom->dev->sector_size);
+       PedGeometry *newg = NULL;