Re: [PATCH] Allow userspace block device implementation

[Andi Kleen]

Kyle Moffett <kyle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>   (1) The ability to rearrange, resize, and restructure
> partition-tables on the fly.  The existing "re-read partition tables"
> infrastructure does not safely and reasonably handle changes to the
> partition-table while partitions are mounted. 

It doesn't today (and I really hate it too), but is there a hard reason it
couldn't be fixed to support that properly? 

-Andi

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