-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Jens, did this get lost in the shuffle, or just miss the window for 3.10 and will go in 3.11? On 4/4/2013 4:30 PM, Phillip Susi wrote: >> I have not tested it yet, but I am pretty sure it won't work. >> It looks like the patch changes the BLKRRPART path to go ahead >> and remove existing partitions when GENHD_FL_NO_PARTSCAN is set. >> loop doesn't issue the BLKRRPART ioctl when !LO_FLAGS_PARTSCAN so >> this won't help. I think loop needs to set GENHD_FL_NO_PARTSCAN >> and then issue the ioctl regardless of the LO_FLAGS_PARTSCAN flag >> to get the partitions to be removed. I will try to test >> tonight. > > After testing, my initial thoughts appeared to have been correct. > I had to modify the patch as follows. To test, simply do: > > truncate -s 10m img losetup /dev/loop0 img parted /dev/loop0 > mklabel msdos mkpart primary ext2 1m 2m quit ls /dev/loop0* > > Note the /dev/loop0p1 node. Run losetup -d /dev/loop0 and see if > it is still there. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJRpMRWAAoJEJrBOlT6nu75yUYH/1PSNmTOBYgvEqQclWPBTd8n Fm95yILcIlJWdUr3gUvQmjBax1NzKnG3NZ2U4hucpCcJH4FkHSTTFl5uZ3wU1B/Q nvuQoSqYXVP+V9PVSTsUsxOI4Mvw5YP5sFwSdwRKpkCldXOuHrRZsuccFtkQducU AIij42jvI1un+/qc6NLW+/S+rcLGUj21boPmX3g80km1De9QMrYrbGAAEbFO3rrq fzsvGuVvOroGppLGpze4iMDn060Lxrw6//KDGtiUBIeD8kZCFGkBh1KupHqLLzXm gmfdlHIqAR5uWB29m9TOlRbHPzdeQutwt8zL2LOYlCft5OiBIOW8dT8EFkl2Buw= =7BGq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
