Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Patch] Cleanup struct gendisk registration, 2.3.40-pre1 | From | Kjetil Torgrim Homme <> | Date | 17 Jan 2000 17:12:32 +0100 |
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[Linus Torvalds]
> If you are fdisk'ing your disks while you have processes with open > descriptors to the partitions, you're asking for trouble, and you > deserve whatever you get. Don't be ridiculous - this is not > something we should even TRY to fix.
On Solaris, I routinely resize partitions and grow file systems while running with the file systems mounted. Whatever decreases downtime is useful in my book.
Kjetil T.
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