Re: [md PATCH 8/8] md: Use revalidate_disk to effect changes in size of device.

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On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 6:07 PM, H. Peter Anvin<hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 08/02/2009 02:58 PM, NeilBrown wrote:
>> As revalidate_disk calls check_disk_size_change, it will cause
>> any capacity change of a gendisk to be propagated to the blockdev
>> inode.  So use that instead of mucking about with locks and
>> i_size_write.
>>
>> Also add a call to revalidate_disk in do_md_run and a few other places
>> where the gendisk capacity is changed.
>>
>
> This patch causes my Fedora 11 system with all filesystems on RAID-1 to
> not boot (it hangs in early userspace, Ctrl-Alt-Del reboots the system.)

I reported similar findings, with some more detail, relative to
Fedora's rawhide here:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/8/5/275
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