GEOM architecture and the (lack of) need for foot-shooting

[Andrey Chernov]

On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 12:57:55AM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> Which view do you offer the user if he enters the partitioning tool
> a second time before he reboots ? 
> 
> The in-memory or the on-disk ?

It must depends on the tool option. Each tool must have an option, which 
partition table it plan to modify. I.e. in-core or on-disk.

> What about crash-safety ?

You can do all crash-safety related to in-core partition because it 
have immediate effect to mounting etc.

You should do no crash-safety related to on-disk partition. Beeing root is 
crash-safety enough for that.

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