On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 13:18:50 -0500 Phillip Susi <psusi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2/10/2011 2:31 PM, Alan Cox wrote: > > If you start the smart stuff then it also sometimes locks when it > > shouldn't with devastating results for non technical users. I'd say > > When? Is there any specific case you can think of? Think about a raid volume where it is full disk and then the magic autolocking crap guesses wrong, the volume goes partly inaccessible while the box is running. Nasty mess. > > No - because the drive may not even have a partition table on the other > > OS. > > Huh? Either the drive has a partition table or it doesn't. There are lots of table formats and tables in different locations. It's not simple as you seem to think. One persons partition table is another persons data block. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
