On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> A variation on this is why the partitioning code does something along the
> lines of
>
> bh = bread(..)
> ...
> bforget(bh);
>
> (ie uses "bforget()" instead of "brelse()").
>
> So you actually shouldn't see that failure mode you're talking about. But
> hey, who knows.
Agree, but why should it not be a requirement to relearn about the device
everytime it is opened from user-land? I am assuming events like
fdisk/cfdisk and load/unload events of media.
Since one of the goals with CDR/CD-RW's is to be able to perform a
multi-mount of sessions that react like drive partitions.
This will make a mess, since nothing in the code (that I know of) currents
entertains this possiblity.
Andre Hedrick
The Linux IDE guy
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