Re: Question on MAJOR.H

From: Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Date: Fri Apr 07 2000 - 17:17:21 EST


Jeff V. Merkey writes:
> I have to scan through all the disks when NWFS first loads or tries to
> mount a volume in order to read in the volume segment tables for each
> NetWare partition detected to build a map of all the volume segments and
> their locations, otherwise I cannot map the volume. I think long term
> we should put this into the partition stuff in genhd.c, but for now, I
> am scanning them myself.

You do know that the partition stuff was killed in genhd.c a long time
ago, don't you? genhd.c is now purely initialisation of drivers now.
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