> Would writing a hurd translator for partitions also fix the problem with
> parititon sizes limited to 1GB ?
No. This has everything to do with the implementations of the ext2fs
and ufs servers.
-Neal
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Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 08:58:56AM -0500, Neal H Walfield wrote:
> > The Hurdish way to solve this problem is in userspace via a translator.
> > A server, let's call it `disk_part', would translate a harddrive based on
> > the partition table possibly creating a hierarc
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 08:58:56AM -0500, Neal H Walfield wrote:
> The Hurdish way to solve this problem is in userspace via a translator.
> A server, let's call it `disk_part', would translate a harddrive based on
> the partition table possibly creating a hierarchy as follows:
>
> /dev/hda <-
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 09:57:26PM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> Hi, ive been working on a simple fdisk like program, im stuck trying to
> workout how to get the program to reread the partition table.
>
> In linux there is an ioctl defined as BLKRRPART which works, i found
> something similar call
Hi, ive been working on a simple fdisk like program, im stuck trying to
workout how to get the program to reread the partition table.
In linux there is an ioctl defined as BLKRRPART which works, i found
something similar called V_REMOUNT in /include/mach/machine/disk.h, the
comment says it remount
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