Thread (10 messages) 10 messages, 2 authors, 2021-02-18

Re: [PATCH 2/2] block: avoid to drop & re-add partitions if partitions aren't changed

From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Date: 2021-02-05 07:15:23
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On Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 10:17:08AM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
block ioctl(BLKRRPART) always drops current partitions and adds
partitions again, even though there isn't any change in partitions table.

ioctl(BLKRRPART) may be called by systemd-udevd and some disk utilities
frequently.
Err, why?  We should probably fix udev to not do stupid things first.
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