On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 10:26:43AM -0700, Derrik Pates wrote: > On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, Ethan Benson wrote: > > > 2.*.* kernels are affected. and this always happens AFTER the new > > partition table is already completly synced to disk, once you reboot > > your partition table is just fine, just as you wanted it to be when > > you pressed the `w' command. the panic is clearly caused by the > > `reread partition table ioctl' > > I can say I've had it happen with the 2.2.x kernels that Debian potato > uses for booting off CD. However, with my locally-built BenH kernels, I've > done partitioning stuff and never had that happen. I don't know if I've > just been lucky, or if Ben has a fix for it in his tree. i have seen it occur in benh kernels as well. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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