Martin, > Could you please explain why you think Don's patch is wrong? User > settings being discarded because of a BLKRRPART ioctl violates the > principle of least surprise. With Don's patch, that won't happen any > more. If hardware limits change, whether they increase or decrease, the > patch will also do the Right Thing, AFAICS. Increasing hw limits will > not automatically increase the sw limit, but IMO that's actually > expected. I have been mulling over this for a while. I suggest the following... -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering
