-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/29/2013 10:40 AM, Harald Hoyer wrote: > On 04/29/2013 08:53 AM, NeilBrown wrote: >> On Mon, 29 Apr 2013 08:32:31 +0200 Harald Hoyer <harald@xxxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >>> We cannot open with O_EXCL, because the device can be mounted, and >>> O_EXCL would fail there. > > >> If the device is mounted, why would you want udev to be doing anything >> to it? > >> I assumed this was for things like "mkfs" so that as soon as you mkfs a >> filesystem udev could tell udisks to immediately mount it... though I'm >> not sure this is a good idea. > >> I'm probably missing something important: what is the particular use >> case for udev mapping a close-after-write to a change event? > >> Thanks, NeilBrown > > > > Anyway, if you don't want to play nicely with the inotify mechanism of > udev, you have to inject the "change" uevent manually for every device > mdadm changes. > *rant mode on* I think we should drop the inotify mechanism from udev and say "f*** you" to the tools... If they change s.th. on the disk, they can also emit a "change" uevent to the kernel themselves. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.13 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJRfjM3AAoJEANOs3ABTfJwRwoP/jtGvFdNonRF71txWxTzvsas QErwTrojNdpRT850rCHIMNF9x/iYSMaVJcMGBx+H3zyZCDLiYwr7qvXUNWh9frC2 FQvJEqhpoH4ku17wT2eX4XYhIOC7/qudsS9EUfQ/NZw4her2uXbHosSJjfBjsp0f voVaU1dXZ4jsyA5nybH2fN0L70HpMei4AU9/lhI5UtBZa6erOe3o/kc0rT+E9o9z n4l+r6DI2zsgw/Cg0O59N6G9otd2zYuj2QLosPmG4Rx0yEcoC8Tn04ncJ8e5Qw4E GW0sm7SvP2tSlQvZFltKpGjEMPuKMXkcmgonkmGpZGSzpxF2evH+6SyK0lN4E7IK Guz6s5r+ecj6WWGneX7H+RD7EV4UIYHirr8txhS7QXmPiXR0+OJ4S5BPGdnxLBUf D/ttJUwA9sSSGdVx4M5iH39o/cC3I6XdUXqa7A6gpEsNZHE44masIVfdUIOqkv9a 1Ok3sArMWFkE+RtsRltzmcnGGyj58W4wBwtMp5gzbqfSGqpONzSt4uETzs1cTJWt qQdWMGFsb4WKjHmjoG0ohr70r5zNubpeXfQlWzAFcFSWcqPmKK4J/Wk9hrB2kBo/ TNdgAxyRJOzGh/uNF0XVbEuL2dfIxjc25AadYJs9eq3wUQrs5C3ppL3lHI4/vKFi AAwQBFAqj/b3MBJ5FR95 =r9Au -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html