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



On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> > And this fsync doesnt really help at all, does it?
> > It remains the case that programs that access block 15003 of hda
> > and block 3 of hda2 will have alias problems as long as there is
> > at least some process that still has these devices open.
>
> But you shouldn't have processes with them open _anyway_.
>
> 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.

Erm... You know a way to fsck root without mounting it?


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