Karel Zak wrote:
I guess it's udevd (on new distros). It checks by inotify for
filesystem changes to maintain /dev/disk/by-* symlinks.
Thank you Karel for sharing your thoughts on this "failure to inform
kernel of partition changes" problem.
Due to the intermittent nature of this problem it has been a challenge
to discover the root cause. I too suspect a problem with udev, but this
is just a guess at this time. So far I have been unable to identify a
specific commit or udev version that introduced the problem.
Further confusing the issue is that SysRescCD-1.3.4 does not experience
the problem, but has a udev version between Fedora 12 and
GParted-Live-0.5.0-3 which exhibit the problem.
Linux kernel and udev versions for some test distributions follow:
SysRescCD-1.3.4 does not exhibit this problem (based on gentoo):
linux-2.6.31.9 (with btrfs update from 2.6.32)
udev-146-r1
Fedora 12 does exhibit the problem:
linux-2.6.31.5-127
udev-145-12
GParted Live 0.5.0-3 does exhibit the problem (based on debian sid):
linux-2.6.31-1
udev-148-2
This is a puzzling situation indeed.
I have been tracking my test results in the following bug report:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=604298
Are you aware of a specific commit or udev version that introduced this
change?
Do you have some suggestions on how to identify the root cause?
Regards,
Curtis Gedak
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