bug#25756: [systemd-devel] systemd mucking with partition tables ( was: bug#25756: Problems using "parted ... print" on nvme devices )

2017-04-20 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Wed, 19.04.17 13:59, Phil Susi (ps...@ubuntu.com) wrote: > On 4/19/2017 12:17 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > > This isn't precisely new functionality, it has been doing that since > > years. It will synthesize "change" udev events when a process closes a block > > device after writing, so that

bug#25756: [systemd-devel] systemd mucking with partition tables ( was: bug#25756: Problems using "parted ... print" on nvme devices )

2017-04-19 Thread Phil Susi
On 4/19/2017 12:17 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > This isn't precisely new functionality, it has been doing that since > years. It will synthesize "change" udev events when a process closes a block > device after writing, so that the changed superblock/partition > information is properly propagate

bug#25756: [systemd-devel] systemd mucking with partition tables ( was: bug#25756: Problems using "parted ... print" on nvme devices )

2017-04-19 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Wed, 19.04.17 09:01, Phil Susi (ps...@ubuntu.com) wrote: > On 2/16/2017 12:32 PM, Brian C. Lane wrote: > > I think the tricky part of that is going to be that when we open the > > device we don't really know what commands are going to be issued so it > > needs to be RDWR to allow for all the ot

bug#25756: systemd mucking with partition tables ( was: bug#25756: Problems using "parted ... print" on nvme devices )

2017-04-19 Thread Phil Susi
On 2/16/2017 12:32 PM, Brian C. Lane wrote: > I think the tricky part of that is going to be that when we open the > device we don't really know what commands are going to be issued so it > needs to be RDWR to allow for all the other possibilities. I'm sure I have seen a patch floating around some

bug#25756: Problems using "parted ... print" on nvme devices

2017-02-16 Thread Brian C. Lane
On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 09:08:44AM -0600, Douglas Miller wrote: > We have seen a problem in some test infrastructure that uses "parted ... > print" to query partition information and then configure test cases. The > problem shows up when using parted on nvme drives because systemd.udevd is > monito

bug#25756: Problems using "parted ... print" on nvme devices

2017-02-16 Thread Douglas Miller
We have seen a problem in some test infrastructure that uses "parted ... print" to query partition information and then configure test cases. The problem shows up when using parted on nvme drives because systemd.udevd is monitoring nvme devices for changes to the partition tables, and rebuilds