Hello, all. In GRUB we have tools to discover various parameters as to how GRUB would see the disks on boot and for this we run the same code as we have in boot time in userspace. So most natural for us would be accessing whole disks like sda but unfortunately its cache isn't kept synchronous with partitions (e.g. sda1), so if FS driver writes something to sda1 it won't be visible through sda until pages are dropped. Right now in Linux-specific code we try to find which partition of sda starts at given sector (e.g. 2048) by trying all partition Linux sees in order to read from sda1 rather than sda. The code is ugly and sometimes create issues. So my questions are: 1) Do we have to issue some ioctl to reload those caches? 2) Is it considered a bug and should I plunge forward, fix it and send a patch? -- Regards Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
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