Hi,
I'm not 100% sure (patch was against 2.6.15, things may have
changed) but I believe it's so disk subsystem won't complain
about not being able to read the partition table when nbd-server
isn't running. Again, I'm not sure.
Bogdan
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Laurent Vivier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Hi Bogdan,
>
> Le jeudi 10 avril 2008 à 11:42 +0200, Bogdan Harjoc a écrit :
> > I was convinced I'd sent a similar (but more naive) patch for this
> > about
> > two years ago to nbd-general. Now that I searched through my folders,
> > it seems I'd only sent it to Wouter.
>
> In my "long" experience, I learned that the best patch will never be
> included if you don't send it to the good people ;-)
> (Well, it's also true for the worst patches...)
>
> > Most things are handled better by Laurent's version, with the
> > exception
> > (IMO) that GENHD_FL_SUPPRESS_PARTITION_INFO is being removed
> > permanently in his, whereas I only remove it before nbd_do_it() and
> > re-add
> > it afterwards. I'm attaching my version here.
>
> I don't understand why you do that ?
>
> Regards,
> Laurent
>
> > Cheers,
> > Bogdan
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 3:44 PM, Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 05:14:09PM -0400, Paul Clements wrote:
> > > Below, Laurent notes that partition table re-read doesn't
> > automatically
> > > occur. For now you'll have to open("/dev/nbdX") to get that
> > to happen.
> > > Longer term, nbd-client can be modified to fork just before
> > nbd_do_it()
> > > and then call ioctl(BLKRRPART, "/dev/nbdX") in the parent
> > process
> > > (probably need to wait for the "pid" file to show up in /sys
> > to avoid a
> > > race).
> >
> >
> > I just released nbd-2.9.10, which does just that.
> >
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