On 5/23/2016 3:41 AM, Loic Dachary wrote: > Hi Philip, > > In the context of the Ceph ( http://ceph.com/ ) project, I'm trying > to figure out why parted 3.2 fixes a problem that shows in 3.1 [1]. > In a nutshell, calling partprobe sometime fails with "device busy" > with 3.1 and when using 3.2 that never happens (all things are the > same, only parted changes). I took a look at the commits in > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/parted.git/log/ but I didn't see a > commit that would explain such a behavior change. > > Any pointer or idea you may have would be greatly appreciated :-) An strace would help, but if I had to guess, one significant change between 3.1 and 3.2 was the addition of the ability to resize mounted partitions, so it could be that partprobe is adjusting the size of a changed partition, and it used to not be able to do that if it is mounted. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
