From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net>
Cc: Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Questions : disk partition re-reading
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 11:21:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <408D28F5.1020209@tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040426083142.GA26429@wiggy.net>
Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Andries Brouwer wrote:
>
>>The answer is always the same: it exists and is called partx.
>
>
> Is partx ready for prime time yet? The util-linux sources do not compile
> or install it by default and the only comment in the HISTORY file is
> 'code to play with, not to use'.
So partx is intended to provide a reason for not discussing putting the
functionality into the kernel, rather than actually being robust enough
to use? If the author doesn't think it's ready for production use, why
mention it?
--
-bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
last possible moment - but no longer" -me
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-26 15:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-18 13:24 Questions : disk partition re-reading Remi Colinet
[not found] ` <200404181707.10467.christian.kroener@tu-harburg.de>
2004-04-18 14:40 ` Remi Colinet
2004-04-18 17:58 ` DervishD
2004-04-19 3:49 ` Jakob Oestergaard
2004-04-19 11:39 ` Erik Mouw
2004-04-19 22:37 ` Rob Couto
2004-04-20 7:46 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-04-20 14:36 ` Rogier Wolff
2004-04-25 22:15 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-04-26 8:31 ` Wichert Akkerman
2004-04-26 15:21 ` Bill Davidsen [this message]
2004-04-29 0:26 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-04-29 0:15 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-04-29 8:04 ` Wichert Akkerman
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