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Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2007 15:21:36 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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To: Jonathan Schleifer <js@h3c.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Ignore partition table on device
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Jonathan Schleifer wrote:
> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> 
>> This seems broken.  If nothing else, there should be ways to enable or
>> disable this at runtime.
> 
> What exactly do you consider broken?
> I don't really see a way to change that at runtime since hard disk
> partition tables are read at bootup. Or did you mean to change the
> device where the partition table should be ignored at runtime, so one
> could enable/disable it and reattach the device under the condition
> that it's a removable device?

Partition tables aren't just read at bootup.  We also adjust partition
tables at runtime.  Since this is dynamic, ignoring partition tables
should be, too.

	-hpa
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