On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 09:34:20PM +0100, David Laight wrote:
> > Keep the device open. when the device is closed the in-core disklabel
> > is cleared. So the new partition in-core table created by mbrlabel
> > would be lost before you can run mount.
> 
> Maybe the kernel should sit on it itself for a while?
> Actually it could do that for any disklabel...
> System startup reads it about a dozen times :-)

We could make it permanent for fixed device, and detect media change for
removable ones. But if we do this we need a way to clear the in-core
disklabel.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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