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From: Ruediger Meier <sweet_f_a@gmx.de>
To: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Cc: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sfdisk, re-eading partition table fails
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2015 15:32:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201512181532.18097.sweet_f_a@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201512151326.33633.sweet_f_a@gmx.de>

On Tuesday 15 December 2015, Ruediger Meier wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 December 2015, Karel Zak wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 01:11:59PM +0100, Ruediger Meier wrote:

> > > Removing the first BLKRRPART ioctl (or sleeping about 50ms after
> > > the first one) "fixes" the issue.
> >
> > The is_device_used() in the sfdisk is nothing elegant,
>
> But how else could we check whether a device is in use?
>
> > maybe
> > we can use --noreread sfdisk command line option in the tests.
>
> I have such patch already for testing.

It's now on github pull request #244 among other patches
https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/pull/244

Would be still nice to fix the problem within sfdisk somehow.

BTW I found that is_device_used() is not called for other generic 
options like --reorder. This seems inconsistent.

cu,
Rudi

      parent reply	other threads:[~2015-12-18 14:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-14 12:11 sfdisk, re-eading partition table fails Ruediger Meier
2015-12-15 10:24 ` Karel Zak
2015-12-15 12:26   ` Ruediger Meier
2015-12-15 13:33     ` Karel Zak
2015-12-18 14:32     ` Ruediger Meier [this message]

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