Jonathan Schleifer wrote:
> "H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> This seems broken. If nothing else, there should be ways to enable or
>> disable this at runtime.
>
> What exactly do you consider broken?
> I don't really see a way to change that at runtime since hard disk
> partition tables are read at bootup. Or did you mean to change the
> device where the partition table should be ignored at runtime, so one
> could enable/disable it and reattach the device under the condition
> that it's a removable device?
Partition tables aren't just read at bootup. We also adjust partition
tables at runtime. Since this is dynamic, ignoring partition tables
should be, too.
-hpa
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