Re: mounting unpartitioned drives

Itai Nahshon (nahshon@actcom.co.il)
Thu, 19 Feb 1998 00:38:34 +0200

Grant R. Guenther wrote:
>
> No, the partition analysis will _always_ happen - it is done in the driver
> when it detects changed media. You'll have to live with that bit of ugliness
> if you want to use the media in that way.
>

How much work would it be to do a lazy partition analysis - put it off
until a partition is really accessed?

Itai

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Itai Nahshon   nahshon@actcom.co.il
        Also   nahshon@vnet.ibm.com


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