linux-kernel - Re: re-reading the partition table on a "busy" drive

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Date:	Fri, 8 Sep 2006 15:47:03 +0200 (MEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
To:	Michael Tokarev <mjt@....msk.ru>
cc:	Oleg Verych <olecom@...wer.upol.cz>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: re-reading the partition table on a "busy" drive


>> My anwser to this question: if it's so "pretty annoying", just let it be
>> "yes, do as i said !", not more and not less, just most ;).
>
>Well, this whole question is already moot, as pointed out by Olaf.
>Because kernel already supports add/delete single partition ioctls,
>which is sufficient.  For my needs I already wrote a tiny hack which
>compares /proc/partitions with the output of `sfdisk -d' and re-adds
>anything which changed.  It should be possible to do the same with
>parted instead of {sf,cf,f}disk without using that hack, but hell,
>all those fdisks (parted included) sucks badly, each in its own way,
>so all are being used for different parts of the task, including the
>hack ;)

So something should write the perfect utility. There are people on this 
list capable of this, like we have seen with git :)


Jan Engelhardt
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