Messages in this thread | | | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] SMP race in ext2 - metadata corruption. | Date | Sun, 6 May 2001 13:46:46 -0600 (MDT) |
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Alan writes: > > an interesting task when your root lives on /dev/sda1. Ditto for destroying > > a single partition (not mounted/used by swap/etc.) while you have some > > other partition in use. IWBNI we had a decent API for handling partition > > tables... > > Partitions are just very crude logical volumes, and ultimiately I believe > should be handled exactly that way
Actually, the EVMS project does exactly this. All I/O is done on a full disk basis, and essentially does block remapping for each partition. This also solves the problem of cache inconsistency if accessing the parent device vs. accessing the partition.
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