On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 02:53:44PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > As I've studied history behind partition rescanning I understand it is > difficult to please everybody :). But creating partitions under assembled > RAID device looks wrong to me. So I was wondering - couldn't > disk_scan_partitions() just refuse to operate on the device if there's > another exclusive opener (it will be a bit painful to do the check but it > is doable)? That will fix this problem with RAID and should > not be prone to races with udev or similar problems causing troubles in the > past. What do people think? Yes, that seems like a very reasonable thing to do.
