Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 16 Jan 2000 22:22:40 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: [Patch] Cleanup struct gendisk registration, 2.3.40-pre1 |
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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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