Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261887AbVCSW1J (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Mar 2005 17:27:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261894AbVCSW1J (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Mar 2005 17:27:09 -0500 Received: from alpha.polcom.net ([217.79.151.115]:4030 "EHLO alpha.polcom.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261887AbVCSW1E (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Mar 2005 17:27:04 -0500 Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 23:28:41 +0100 (CET) From: Grzegorz Kulewski To: Werner Almesberger Cc: Andries Brouwer , torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, bon@elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] partitions/msdos.c In-Reply-To: <20050319185458.B17469@almesberger.net> Message-ID: References: <20050226213459.GA21137@apps.cwi.nl> <20050319185458.B17469@almesberger.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1148 Lines: 27 On Sat, 19 Mar 2005, Werner Almesberger wrote: > Andries Brouwer wrote: >> The two variants are: (i) partition tells the kernel >> to do the partition table reading, and (ii) partition uses partx >> to read the partition table and tells the kernel one-by-one >> about the partitions found this way. > > I guess, once you've reached the point where the kernel is > unable to find partitions without user-space help, you may > as well do everything in user space. I agree. This is userspace job. This can be done very easily using device-mapper. I think EVMS does something similar. I even asked on LKML some time ago about option for disabling kernel partition driver (maybe for some devices) from kernel command line to allow other tools do the job (because now I have unusable /dev/sda1 and usable /dev/evms/sda1 and this leads to stupid mistakes). But there were no replies. Grzegorz Kulewski - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/