Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751773AbZG1Tti (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:49:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750819AbZG1Tti (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:49:38 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:34112 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750744AbZG1Tth (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:49:37 -0400 To: Kyle Moffett Cc: Linus Torvalds , Alan Cox , Zachary Amsden , Tejun Heo , Peter Zijlstra , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, axboe@kernel.dk, hch@infradead.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, Paul.Clements@steeleye.com, tytso@mit.edu, miklos Subject: Re: [PATCH] Allow userspace block device implementation From: Andi Kleen References: <4A6D79F6.3050509@redhat.com> <1248699365.6987.1628.camel@twins> <20090727142536.465799aa@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <4A6E529B.9030104@kernel.org> <4A6E764E.80805@redhat.com> <20090728112734.5a75752d@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:49:34 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Kyle Moffett's message of "Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:36:31 -0400") Message-ID: <87d47kh9kh.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 721 Lines: 19 Kyle Moffett writes: > > (1) The ability to rearrange, resize, and restructure > partition-tables on the fly. The existing "re-read partition tables" > infrastructure does not safely and reasonably handle changes to the > partition-table while partitions are mounted. It doesn't today (and I really hate it too), but is there a hard reason it couldn't be fixed to support that properly? -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only. -- 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/