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

[Oleg Verych <olecom@flower.upol.cz>]

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> > > 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 :)

As far as i can see, most of such was actually started by Linus,
including linux.....

> Jan Engelhardt


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