From: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@redhat.com>
To: lvm-devel@redhat.com
Subject: [PATCH] Retry dm device removal if busy
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 13:29:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6E8B2169-8A1D-4682-B02E-9CEA8D1B6835@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E6F6958.5020609@redhat.com>
Yes please!
All to often we come across this issue. There are a number of bugs that are likely fixed by doing this change - even if it isn't academically perfect.
brassow
On Sep 13, 2011, at 9:31 AM, Peter Rajnoha wrote:
> If a dm device is being opened in parallel while we're
> trying to remove it, we'll end up with an error that
> the device is busy. This is a legitimate error, but
> with udev in play and asynchronous events generated
> as a result of using the WATCH udev rule, we can get
> into a situation where such failure is very unpleasant.
>
> Let's try the removal a few times then. Though this is
> not a complete solution to the problem, let's use this
> until we have one.
>
> Peter
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-13 14:31 [PATCH] Retry dm device removal if busy Peter Rajnoha
2011-09-13 14:55 ` Milan Broz
2011-09-13 15:01 ` Joe Thornber
2011-09-13 18:29 ` Jonathan Brassow [this message]
2011-09-14 12:14 ` Zdenek Kabelac
2011-09-14 12:26 ` Milan Broz
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