Curtis Gedak wrote:
> After about 7.5 days, my testing of the proposed patch for
> parted-1.9.0 is complete.  The patch permitted my test script to
> successfully complete all 99,999 iterations.  :-)
>
> This patch appears to significantly reduce the chance of experiencing
> the "failure to inform kernel of partition changes" problem that
> happens with newer GNU/Linux distributions, udev, and parted.
>
> Details about the test and the patch can be found at the following link:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=604298#c22

Hi Curtis,
Thanks a lot for all your work on this.

> Now some questions for the upstream maintainers of parted:
>
> 1)  Is this patch something you would consider for inclusion in parted?

>From a quick skim of this thread a couple weeks ago,
this sounds like something that is useful for 1.9.

Is it as useful for 2.1+ (head) ?

> 2)  If yes, would you like me to re-base the patch to a specific
> branch in the git repository?

Yes, please.  It is easier for me to evaluate something like this
if the patch is relative to the head of "master".

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