Re: [PATCH] SMP race in ext2 - metadata corruption.

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 6 May 2001 13:47:47 +0100 (BST)

> 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
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