From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Florent Rougon Subject: Re: 3 questions... Date: 30 Sep 2002 21:09:34 +0200 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <87fzvrwaz5.fsf@florent.hn.org> References: <3D977753.4010401@tls.msk.ru> <87k7l4zb8j.fsf@florent.hn.org> <3D978975.2010903@tls.msk.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: In-Reply-To: <3D978975.2010903@tls.msk.ru> To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Michael Tokarev wrote: > Hmm, it's always a good idea to have a backup handy, just in > case, right? ;) Oh, yes. > Kernel code does not care about partition table _at all_ while > disk is in use - kernel reads partition table when disk usage > goes from 0 to 1, and keeps that table in memory after that, so [...] > table (an area that isn't used for anything else)). So, answer > to both your question is yes, but see my first statement (in [...] Thank you very much for this detailed answer. -- Florent