linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] remove whole-disk entries from cache when partitions are found

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Message-ID: <20090423025358.GB15541@mit.edu>
Date:	Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:53:58 -0400
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
Cc:	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove whole-disk entries from cache when partitions
	are found

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:51:51AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> We can get into a situation in blkid where whole disks remain
> in the cache, even though partitions are found.  For labels
> such as sun disklabels which may have the first partition
> beginning at sector 0, this is even somewhat likely.

Applied to the e2fsprogs source repository.

						- Ted
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