On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 02:14:50PM +0530, Nikanth Karthikesan wrote: > From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx> > Subject: Emulate BLKRRPART on device-mapper > > Partitions on device-mapper devices are managed by kpartx (if at > all). So if we were just to send out a 'change' event if someone > called BLKRRPART on these devices, kpartx will be triggered via udev > and can manage the partitions accordingly. > > Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@xxxxxxx> Please could I have a 'Tested-by' for this one? I agree with the idea, but I need some evidence that this specific patch works correctly. (The block layer is supposed to handle that class of ioctls itself and I didn't think dm saw them.) Alasdair -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
