On Sun, Jul 25 2021 at 1:54P -0400, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote: > device mapper needs to register holders before it is ready to do I/O. > Currently it does so by registering the disk early, which has all kinds > of bad side effects. Support registering holders on an initialized but > not registered disk instead by delaying the sysfs registration until the > disk is registered. Maybe expand "bad side effects" in header to include what you detailed here?: https://listman.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2021-July/msg00130.html Reviewed-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx>