Nobody has any thoughts on this behavior that to me at least, appears to be a bug?
Phillip Susi <ph...@thesusis.net> writes: > It appears that udev calls BLKRRPRT on a block device whenever it gets > an inotify event that some other process has closed an fd to it. This > causes all of the partitions on the disk to be deleted and ( hopefully ) > re-added. This makes for a lot of seemingly useless udev events. > > Even if they are re-added, this causes a race with other processes on > the system and can cause them to error because the partition > disappeared. Worse yet, the kernel may not even be able to read the > partition table on the disk ( it may have been provided by command line > or use of the partx tool ), in which case, this would just delete the > partitions. > > Why does udev do this and could it stop?
