Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 19 Sep 2001 15:50:04 -0400 | From | Mark Swanson <> | Subject | Re: Request: removal of fs/fs.h/super_block.u to enable partition locking |
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Alan Cox wrote: > > You are not going to stop a tired sysadmin doing something daft. You can > certainly create a GPL'd raw partition as a file fs (I believe someone did > that so INN could mmap raw on a device) > > However you don't need to remove anything for that
But I can't distribute the file fs with my application, because I can't expect my user base to patch and recompile their kernel just so they can run my application.
Perhaps what is needed is an 'inuse' filesystem or a way to make filesystem modules without patching the kernel.
My concern is that ordinary tools like mount check the proc filesystem to see if a partition is already mounted and it seems likely that tools like mke2fs do this too. Sysadmins might feel that existing tools protect them from damaging something in use. I'm looking for a way to follow this general behavior with raw partitions.
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