On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 11:16:15AM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: > It will not wait, the tools will just fail to open the device, and In some cases the tools are wasting their time even trying to open the device - we know in advance that it is pointless and should have a mechanism in place so they can be told not to bother. E.g. Flagging a device as 'private' as discussed in an earlier mail. Alasdair -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel