Hi Phil, On 24/05/2016 19:16, Phil Susi wrote: > 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. > That's an interesting lead, I'll double check if that could be the cause. Thanks very much for the hint ! I'll let you know how it evolves. Cheers -- Loïc Dachary, Artisan Logiciel Libre -- 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
