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SubjectRe: [Patch] Cleanup struct gendisk registration, 2.3.40-pre1
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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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