From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
To: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>,
Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
dm-devel@redhat.com, Peter Rajnoha <prajnoha@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Disable partitions scan for multipathed devices
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 13:27:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <532052CB.2090605@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140312122310.GB14017@agk-dp.fab.redhat.com>
On 03/12/2014 01:23 PM, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 12:48:56PM +0100, Hannes Reinecke wrote:
>> For this I've implemented a new feature 'no_partitions' which
>> just serves as a notifier to kpartx to _not_ create partitions
>> on these devices.
>
> This should be covered by the existing cookie flags (which udev rules
> already use, if you're using udev). It's not a multipath-specific
> problem but can apply to other targets too.
>
Ah.
How? To my knowledge the 'cookies' mechanism is to enable
libdevmapper to wait until udev is done with device creation.
Can you elaborate here?
Cheers,
Hannes
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-12 12:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-12 11:48 [PATCH] Disable partitions scan for multipathed devices Hannes Reinecke
2014-03-12 12:23 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2014-03-12 12:27 ` Hannes Reinecke [this message]
2014-03-12 12:46 ` Peter Rajnoha
2014-03-12 12:55 ` Hannes Reinecke
2014-03-12 13:02 ` Peter Rajnoha
2014-03-12 13:06 ` Peter Rajnoha
2014-03-12 13:14 ` Hannes Reinecke
2014-03-12 14:43 ` Peter Rajnoha
2014-03-12 15:31 ` Hannes Reinecke
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