Messages in this thread | | | From | Andries.Brouwer@cwi ... | Date | Mon, 2 Sep 2002 23:41:22 +0200 (MEST) | Subject | Re: PATCH - change to blkdev->queue calling triggers BUG in md.c |
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> The point about backwards compatibility is that things WORK.
Must I conclude that you did not read my entire letter?
Since we started this small detour talking about media change, let me quote that fragment once more.
"[Don't think that I actually propose doing this today as the default, but it would be a very small patch to add this as an optional behaviour. But there is today, and there is the faraway goal. The faraway goal is: no partition table reading in the kernel. And that influences designing today what to do on media change. Already today I would consider it entirely reasonable if there was no automatic partition table reading after a media change.]"
No, my suggested changes would not break a single Linux installation in the world.
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